Mapping Primary School Leadership In A Post Conflict Context

Author : Shayla Maria Babo Ribeiro,Simon Clarke,Tom O’Donoghue
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781527559141

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Mapping Primary School Leadership in a Post-Conflict Context by Shayla Maria Babo Ribeiro,Simon Clarke,Tom O’Donoghue Pdf

This book focuses on primary school leadership in the post-conflict and developing country of Timor-Leste. In doing so, it reports on research that has charted a ‘narrative arc’ comprising the historical background to primary school leadership, as well as the current concerns perceived by primary school leaders and the strategies they adopt when dealing with the challenges encountered in their day-to-day work. This exposition reveals the significant progress that has been made in establishing a universal, mandatory, and free Basic Education system during the country’s emergence as a post-conflict society. It also conveys the ‘lived experience’ of practitioners and describes vividly the realities of their work in leading their schools and communities. The book will be useful for researchers in the field of educational leadership, for school leaders, for education policy makers, and for those responsible for preparing, developing, and supporting primary school leaders in Timor-Leste, as well as in other post-conflict and developing countries.

Author : Gilbert Karareba,Simon Clarke,Thomas O'Donoghue
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319602646

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Primary School Leadership in Post-Conflict Rwanda by Gilbert Karareba,Simon Clarke,Thomas O'Donoghue Pdf

This book explores the current status of primary schools in Rwanda and the history behind their development. It argues that current primary school leaders in the area encounter a wide range of problems relating to conflict prevention, teachers' and school leaders' professionalism, financial and resourcing constraints, student attrition, and parental disengagement, many of which can be attributed to the legacies of war and the genocide in 1994. The book also presents a range of strategies that are pursued by school leaders while dealing with these concerns, as the Rwandan government invests in reconstructing education following the country's turmoil. Through examining the issues of the past and the present, the book provides valuable insights for researchers of educational leadership, school leaders, education policy makers, and those in charge of preparing, developing, and implementing professional development programmes for school leaders and teachers in Rwanda, as well as in other post-war and developing countries.

Author : Simon R. P. Clarke,Thomas A. O'Donoghue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135052171

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School Level Leadership in Post-conflict Societies by Simon R. P. Clarke,Thomas A. O'Donoghue Pdf

How do different contexts influence the nature and character of school leadership? This book is predicated on the simple, yet profound, observation that school leadership can only be understood within the context in which it is exercised. The observation is particularly valid in relation to post-conflict societies especially when they have eventuated from new-wars. Schools in these contexts face highly complex circumstances and a level of environmental turbulence requiring different kinds of leadership from those operating in less complicated and relatively stable situations. By assembling an impressive array of international experts, this book investigates a much neglected area of research. Each chapter highlights the importance of context for understanding the realities of school leadership, and reveals the challenges and influences that school leaders face as well as the strategies they adopt to deal with the complexities of their work. In particular, valuable insights are provided into how intractable problems faced by schools can affect student, professional and organizational learning agendas. There are also important glimpses of the progression that can be made in schools by: -Enhancing the curriculum -Energizing teaching capacity; and -Optimising leadership capacity. Depictions of post-new war environments include Angola, Ghana, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Kenya, Solomon Islands, Lebanon, Kosovo, Timor-Leste and Northern Ireland. The book will be key reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying educational leadership, comparative education and education policy.

Author : Geoff Southworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134410231

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Primary School Leadership in Context by Geoff Southworth Pdf

How does school leadership differ in different sized primary schools? This book responds to the urgent need to explore how different contexts influence the nature and character of primary school leadership and shows how headteachers in different sized schools shape their leadership accordingly. Geoff Southworth draws on a trilogy of related research projects, which investigated leadership in small, medium and large sized primary schools, and sets out the main features of leadership in each category. He presents an evidence-informed portrait of leadership is presented, drawing on the views and experiences of heads, deputies, teachers and governors. As well as focussing on school size the book considers the following related issues: * Learning centred leadership - influencing what happens in classrooms * Structures and systems in schools - how leaders use them * Developing leaders and leadership - the importance of building leadership capacity This informative book sets out in a straightforward way what leaders in different sized schools need to attend to and provides many examples of how leaders can do this. Primary School Leadership in Context will be particularly valuable to headteachers, deputies and subject leaders in primary schools, those who aspire to these positions, and those who are moving schools in search of promotion. Academics and students of school leadership will also find the book useful.

Author : Simon R. P. Clarke,Tom A. O'Donoghue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education and state
ISBN : 0415687098

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School Level Leadership in Post-conflict Societies by Simon R. P. Clarke,Tom A. O'Donoghue Pdf

Looking at the situation in post-new war societies, this book assembles an impressive array of international expertise that highlights the importance of context for the ways in which school leadership is understood and practised.

Author : Simon Clarke,Tom O'Donoghue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317595915

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School Leadership in Diverse Contexts by Simon Clarke,Tom O'Donoghue Pdf

School Leadership in Diverse Contexts demonstrates the centrality of context to understanding school leadership. It offers varied portrayals of leadership in a diverse range of distinct settings. Each chapter highlights the prominence of context in understanding the realities of school leadership, focusing on issues and influences that school leaders face, strategies school leaders adopt to deal with the complexities of their work, and conceptualisations of school leadership relevant to the context. An impressive array of international experts examine this neglected area of research by considering school leadership in nine heterogeneous contexts, providing rich and varied portrayals of school leadership and suggesting ways in which the leadership may be enhanced. School Leadership in Diverse Contexts is an ideal book for undergraduate and postgraduate students, particularly those studying units in educational leadership, comparative education and educational policy. Similarly undergraduate and postgraduate students engaged with development studies, history, sociology, law, human geography will be attracted to this text.

Author : Mark Brundrett,Megan Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415435727

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Developing School Leaders by Mark Brundrett,Megan Crawford Pdf

School leaders now have to be financial and resource managers in addition to their traditional knowledge base. This book asks important questions about the provision of leadership courses, including whether models of leadership studies derived from the business and industry are relevant to schools?

Author : Taro Komatsu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819965199

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Education and Social Cohesion in a Post-conflict and Divided Nation by Taro Komatsu Pdf

Author : Ananda Breed,Helena-Ulrike Marambio,Kirrily Pells,Rajib Timalsina
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040030677

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Children, Youth, and Participatory Arts for Peacebuilding by Ananda Breed,Helena-Ulrike Marambio,Kirrily Pells,Rajib Timalsina Pdf

This book demonstrates how participatory arts-based approaches can help children and youth contribute to peacebuilding within post-conflict contexts and to their communities. Cultural forms of storytelling through visual arts, drama, music, and dance can help to enhance post-conflict community well-being, social cohesion, and conflict prevention. However, in the planning and implementation of these arts-based projects, children and youth are often marginalised in decision-making processes. Drawing on cases from Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia, and Nepal, this book demonstrates the benefits of participatory action research with children and youth to inform education curricula and policies for sustaining peace. Showing how artforms can be adapted to meet the needs of children and youth, the book emphasises the need to scale up arts-based peacebuilding initiatives and leverage for greater policy enactment from the bottom up. It is also an excellent example of South–South learning, advocating for a local approach to engage with arts-based methodologies and peacebuilding. This book will be of interest to researchers across the applied arts, sociology, anthropology, political science, peacebuilding, and international development. Practitioners and policymakers would also benefit from the book’s recommendations for the implementation of successful arts-based research projects and interventions.

Author : Jelena Raković,Tom O'Donoghue,Simon Clarke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030035297

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Leaders and Leadership in Serbian Primary Schools by Jelena Raković,Tom O'Donoghue,Simon Clarke Pdf

This book explores the perspectives of primary school leaders in Serbia as they attempt to navigate its changing political, social and economic situation. As a post-socialist and post-conflict country, Serbia has moved from a state-ruled and planned economy to market-oriented consumerism and competitiveness. In the midst of a rapidly changing and evolving country, school leaders have found themselves on the front lines of a system where infrastructure and support have not been implemented consistently. The clash between the complexities of Serbia’s history and attempts to align education policies to those of the European Union has created unique challenges for primary school leaders: they are expected to be both objects and agents of change in a context where their own political position and relationships with students, parents and the teaching profession at large have been irrevocably altered. By illuminating the perspectives of the leaders themselves, this book emphasises the importance of these actors on the front line of Serbian education: its findings can equally be applied to other post-Communist and post-conflict contexts.

Author : Salleh Hairon,Jonathan Wee Pin Goh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789813291607

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Perspectives on School Leadership in Asia Pacific Contexts by Salleh Hairon,Jonathan Wee Pin Goh Pdf

This book casts a refreshingly new light on current literature on school leadership, which has predominantly been viewed through Western lenses. Accordingly, key concepts and theories on leadership and school leadership have primarily been generated from thinking and research in the Western sphere. This is problematic, considering the fact that the leadership concept or construct, and its practices, are significantly influenced and shaped by contexts, and even situations. However, there are various contextual conditions and forces that can separately or collectively affect how school leadership is understood and practiced, including social, cultural, historical, geographical, economic and political conditions. In response, the book seeks to provide readers a better awareness of how the leadership construct or phenomenon is shaped by the varying contexts constantly affecting school leadership, while specifically focusing on the Asia Pacific region. In turn, it highlights various Asia Pacific contexts that shape school leadership, so as to ‘speak back’ to existing theories on school leadership.

Author : Jelena Raković,Tom O'Donoghue,Simon Clarke
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 303003528X

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Leaders and Leadership in Serbian Primary Schools by Jelena Raković,Tom O'Donoghue,Simon Clarke Pdf

This book explores the perspectives of primary school leaders in Serbia as they attempt to navigate its changing political, social and economic situation. As a post-socialist and post-conflict country, Serbia has moved from a state-ruled and planned economy to market-oriented consumerism and competitiveness. In the midst of a rapidly changing and evolving country, school leaders have found themselves on the front lines of a system where infrastructure and support have not been implemented consistently. The clash between the complexities of Serbia’s history and attempts to align education policies to those of the European Union has created unique challenges for primary school leaders: they are expected to be both objects and agents of change in a context where their own political position and relationships with students, parents and the teaching profession at large have been irrevocably altered. By illuminating the perspectives of the leaders themselves, this book emphasises the importance of these actors on the front line of Serbian education: its findings can equally be applied to other post-Communist and post-conflict contexts.

Author : Jeffrey S. Brooks,George Theoharis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351253475

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Whiteucation by Jeffrey S. Brooks,George Theoharis Pdf

This important volume explores how racism operates in schools and society, while also unpacking larger patterns of racist ideology and white privilege as it manifests across various levels of schooling. A diverse set of contributors analyze particular contexts of white privilege, providing key research findings, connections to policy, and exemplars of schools and universities that are overcoming these challenges. Whiteucation provides a multi-level and holistic perspective on how inequitable power dynamics and prejudice exist in schools, ultimately encouraging reflection, dialogue, and inquiry in spaces where white privilege needs to be questioned, interrogated, and dismantled.

Author : Phebe Marr
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 142231006X

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Iraq’s New Political Map by Phebe Marr Pdf

Author : Jerome Cranston
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781498565066

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Beyond the Classroom Walls by Jerome Cranston Pdf

This book offers richly descriptive narratives and research-based ethnographic insights into the lived experiences of teachers and school administrators in some of the world’s most challenging teaching and learning contexts. In doing so, it supports educators to develop their critical intercultural awareness.