Leadership in early education in times of change

The collection brings together the latest work of researchers from Australia, Africa, Asia, and Europe focusing on early childhood leadership matters. It covers different aspects of leadership in early education: professional education and development, identity and leadership strategies as well as governance and leadership under different frame conditions.

Understanding China’s school leadership :interpreting the terminology

This open access book outlines key terms of China’s school leadership in Chinese political and legal, financial, administrative, and cultural contexts. It reveals and interprets the real meaning of these practical terms based on existing laws, government documents, school policy texts as well as the latest empirical findings from school leaders and teachers’ surveys and interviews in China.…

Environmental leadership capacity building in higher education :experience an…

The Graduate Program in Sustainability Science under the Department of Urban Engineering of The University of Tokyo has been running an environmental leadership education program at the graduate student level since 2007 called the Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders (APIEL). This book describes the University’s experiences in establishing and organizing that program and prov…

Critical perspectives on educational leadership

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Risk Communication for the Future :Towards Smart Risk Governance and Safety M…

The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may play a positive role regarding safety. Building on these two observations and bridging the gap betwee…

Understanding values work :institutional perspectives in organizations and le…

At the core of institutional theories, ‘values’ is a central term and figures in most definitions; however it remains understudied and under-explored. The editors of this open access book identify a resurgence of interest in the values-construct which underpins discussions of identity, ‘ethos’ and the purpose/nature of public and civic welfare provision. Considering the importance of va…

Mary and early Christian women :hidden leadership

This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to depict people at an altar table inside a real church dep…

Perspectives on women’s higher education leadership from around the world

At this time in world history, numerous scholars have emphasized the importance of having greater diversity in leadership, and specifically having greater representation by women in leadership. In particular, providing women with greater access to higher education—and having role models for women in higher education leadership—has a beneficial ripple effect, given that postsecondary institu…

Public leadership :perspectives and practices

‘Leadership’ is routinely admired, vilified, ridiculed, invoked, trivialised, explained and speculated about in the media and in everyday conversation. Despite all this talk, there is surprisingly little consensus about how to answer basic questions about the nature, place, role and impact of leadership in contemporary society. This book brings together academics from a broad array of socia…

Diversity in leadership:Australian women, past and present

Diversity in Leadership: Australian women, past and present provides a new understanding of the historical and contemporary aspects of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women’s leadership in a range of local, national and international contexts.

Missional leadership

The purpose and aim of this book is to develop an appropriate leadership model for missional churches. This implies a positioning of this book within the broader theology of mission and a consensus on the theology of the Missio Dei, originating at the 1952 conference of the International Missionary Council in Willingen, Germany. In this approach to the theology of mission, mission is understood…

Bridging educational leadership, curriculum theory and didaktik :non-affirmat…

This volume argues for the need of a common ground that bridges leadership studies, curriculum theory, and Didaktik. It proposes a non-affirmative education theory and its core concepts along with discursive institutionalism as an analytical tool to bridge these fields. It concludes with implications of its coherent theoretical framing for future empirical research.Recent neoliberal policies an…

Fifty shades of grey :exploring the dark sides of leadership and followership

The scientific field of leadership and followership is fast evolving and has seen several interesting developments over recent years. The early heroic views of leadership are slowly turning into more nuanced perspectives, including the understanding that leadership and followership are mutually dependent on each other. Likewise, there is a growing awareness that the focus on the positive side o…

Naval leadership in the Atlantic world:the age of reform and revolution, 1700…

The naval leader has taken centre stage in traditional naval histories. However, while the historical narrative has been fairly consistent the development of various navies has been accompanied by assumptions, challenges and competing visions of the social characteristics of naval leaders and of their function. Whilst leadership has been a constant theme in historical studies, it has not been s…

Protagonists of war :Spanish army commanders and the revolt in the Low Countries

This is a book on early modern war narratives. In order to reach a fuller understanding of war narratives in general and those on the Revolt in the Low Countries in particular, it is necessary to return to the stories as they came into being. How did people describe the events they participated in, witnessed or heard about? Episodic descriptions of war events and their protagonists can be …

Fathers in work organizations :inequalitas and capalities rationalities and p…

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Anatomy of ethical leadership:to lead our organizations in a conscientious an…

Performance at all costs, productivity without regard to consequences, and a competitive work environment: these are the ethical factors discussed in The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership, which highlights issues in workplace culture while looking into a brighter future for labour ethics. Langlois maintains that an enhanced awareness of the process of ethical decision making in difficult situations…

Social Indicators for Aboriginal Governance:Insights from the Thamarrurr Regi…

Thamarrurr is the cornerstone of our society. It is our way of working together, cooper-ating with each other, and it is also the basis of our governance system.In the early days we looked after our families, our clans and our people throughThamarrurr. We arranged ceremonies, marriages, sorted out tribal disputes and manyother things. We were people living as a nation. People livi…

Building better schools with evidence-based policy:adaptable policy for teach…

Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy: Adaptable Policy for Teachers and School Leaders provides an extensive set of free-to-use policies for building better schools. The policies included in this book cover a broad range of popular topics for schools that are not readily accessible, and each policy is built on theory, driven by research, and created by experts. Each policy is base…

Nilai kepemimpinan dalam naskah Hikayat Maharaja Ali :suatu kajian filologi d…

Dalam rangka penyelamatan isi yang terkandung dalam karya budaya bangsa, khususnya yang terkandung dalam karya tulis yang berupa naskah kuno, Perpustakaan Nasional RI menerbitkan hasil Kajian Naskah Melayu yang berjudul Nilai Kepemimpinan dalam Naskah Hikayat Maharaja Ali (Suatu Kajian Filologi dan Implikasinya bagi Pembelajaran Sastra Indonesia di SMA), Pemilihan naskah ini didasarkan pada kon…