Distributed Leadership in Practice

Name: Distributed Leadership in Practice
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ISBN: 9780807748060

ISBN-10: 0807748064

ISBN-13: 9780807748060

Edition: 2007

Authors: James P. Spillane, John B. Diamond

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Distributed leadership has become an important term for educational policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in the United States and around the world, but there is much diversity in how the term is understood. Some use it as a synonym for democratic or participative leadership. This book examines what it means to take a distributed perspective based on extensive research and a rich theoretical perspective developed by experts in the field. Including numerous case studies of individual schools and providing empirically based accounts of school settings using a distributed perspective, this thorough volume: explores how a distributed perspective is different from other frameworks for…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

James P. Spillane is Olin Chair in Learning and Organizational Change, Northwestern University. John B. Diamond is Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.



Acknowledgments



Taking a Distributed Perspective




Spanning the Boundary Between School Leadership and Classroom Instruction at Hillside Elementary School




Systems of Practice and Professional Community: The Adams Case




Cultivating High Expectations in an Urban Elementary School: The Case of Kelly School




The Leadership Struggle: The Case of Costen Elementary School




The Practice of Leadership in Mathematics and Language Arts: The Adams Case




School Leadership Practice and the School Subject: The Baxter Case




A Distributed Perspective On and In Practice



Notes


References


About the Editors and the Contributors


Index