Educational Leadership : Key Challenges and Ethical Tensions (Paperback)

Introduction and overview; 1. Contemporary leaders and leadership under the spotlight; 2. Key challenges for educational leaders; 3. Leadership challenges as tensions and dilemmas; 4. A framework for analysing and managing tensions; 5. Making decisions in situations of paradox and dilemma: a values and ethics approach; 6. A method for ethical decision making; 7. In an age of uncertainty and unpredictable change educational leaders need to be capable and authentic human beings; 8. Educational leaders should build cultures of shared and distributed leadership in their school communities; 9. Why we need authentic educational leaders; 10. The formation of capable and authentic educational leaders: beyond competency-based approaches; References.