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Pouezevara, Sarah, Ed. – RTI International, 2018
This book responds to growing recognition by international education professionals, policy makers, and funding partners of the need for qualified teachers and interest in the subject of teacher professional development (also referred to as "teacher behavior change"). The book responds to important questions that are fundamental to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Behavior, Behavior Change, Faculty Development
Parry, Ken W., Ed.; Meindl, James R., Ed. – 2002
This book is a collection of 11 essays about research into the phenomena of leadership and other social processes of influence in organizations. After a context-setting introduction by Ken W. Perry and James R. Meindl, the main text includes the following essays: (1) "Salient Bias in Discussion and Research on Leadership" (Micha Popper);…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership, Social Influences, Social Theories
Northouse, Peter G. – SAGE Publications Ltd (CA), 2012
Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities worldwide, the market-leading text owes its success to the unique way in which it combines an academically robust account of the major theories and models of leadership with an accessible style and practical exercises that help students apply what they learn. Each chapter of Peter Northouse's…
Descriptors: Leadership, Theory Practice Relationship, Models, Educational Theories
Starratt, Robert J. – 1993
This book reviews recent developments in the study and theory of leadership and explores new applications. It examines the questions that structuration theory raises for leadership, explores the theory of charisma and critical theory as posing new challenges to the understanding of leadership, and describes the uses of postmodernist theory for a…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership
Hanson, E. Mark – 1996
Schools are perhaps the most complex of all U.S. formal organizations. The primary objective of this book is to enhance insight into human behavior within organizations in order to promote greater skill in governing skills. The book develops three major conceptual frameworks that have important implications for schools. Chapter 1 develops the…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Developing Nations, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Maxcy, Spencer J. – 1994
A collection of chapters examines the applicability of postmodern/poststructural theory to educational leadership and school restructuring in the United States today. Based on the assertion that educational administration research and publications have been traditional, conservative, and naive, this book presents a review of Weberian positivism,…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology
Maxcy, Spencer J. – 1991
An original reformulation of the meaning, potential, and practice of educational leadership, informed by notions of self and social empowerment, is provided. This book relies on a variety of theories derived from philosophic schools such as hermeneutics, critical theory, deconstructionism, and pragmatism. Arguments are presented in the following…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy