Product Description: How do how different contexts influence the nature and character of school leadership? How do leaders in schools located within different environments shape their leadership according to their context? This book’s concern is with leadership at the school level in contemporary post-new war societies...read more

Product Description: Examines the development of teacher education in Western Australian universities, and notes analogous developments in England, Europe and the United States.

Product Description: Australia is a vast sparsely populated land and from an early date this created problems in terms of providing educational facilities. As part of the solution the nation has had a long tradition of using distance education methods to provide an education for its isolated primary and secondary school students...read more

Enhancing learning by empowering all stakeholders within educational institutions increasingly underpins theoretical and conceptual frameworks in the field of educational leadership. This book draws on this key notion of 'distributed leadership', and focuses on the relationship between leadership and learning in educational settings.

Product Description: The lack of serious study on how dangerous schools as institutions can be is a little surprising given that the matter was put squarely on the research agenda in persuasive fashion by Waller back in 1932. The lack of response to the possibilities opened up means that a vibrant research agenda still awaits construction...read more

This is a key text for any student embarking on a qualitative research project, it provides worked examples and valuable models which can be used as guides for plans and proposals, answering key questions and providing a comprehensive guide to a student’s project.It shows that when planning a qualitative research proposal, researchers should adopt an approach where they ask themselves the following four questions:What research paradigm informs my approach to my research area? What theoretical perspective do I choose within the paradigm?What methodology do I choose?What methods are most appropriate? Including examples of the write-up of two central types of research projects: studies on participants’ ‘perspectives’ on phenomena and studies on how participants manage or ‘cope with’ phenomena, the book outlines five research proposals to illustrate ways in which these two central ‘types’ can be varied and applied when engaging in five other types of studies, namely, policy studies, life history studies, retrospective interactionist longitudinal studies and interactionist historical studies, and ‘problem-focused’ studies.

Product Description: Qualitative research is a key form of research in education; the findings of such projects frequently play a central role in shaping policy and practice. First time qualitative researchers require clear and practical guidance from the outset...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is an examination of restructuring in the context of the curriculum and teaching and learning. International case studies are provided from the USA, Hong Kong, Australia and the UK. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Innovative School Principals and Restructuring offers insights into how six principals lead the restructuring process in their schools. This life history approach identifies events, experiences and individuals in the lives of the case study managers, and shows how these have shaped the implementation of changes to curriculum, teaching and learning in their schools.