Passionate Leadership in Education

Brent Davies, Tim Brighouse, Brent Davies, Tim Brighouse

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9781412948623, 9781412948616
• eBook ISBN: 9781446244302
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Leadership in Education

?I recommend the book as an inspiration to those who are looking for the words that express what they may already do (or will do in the future!) for these well known writers have world wide experience in recognising and knowing what it is that makes the passionate leader? - International Journal of Educational Management

?This is a very interesting collection of chapters on leadership…Each chapter is written with verve and conviction, and it makes quite stimulating reading? - Curriculum Perspectives

?Passionate Leadership is a fantastic book by leading thinkers and doers in the education field. It takes moral purpose to new levels, and above all it puts passion in perspective. The book shows that it is not passion by itself that counts but in combination with strategies, insights and daily wisdom. Above all this is a book of action , not rhetoric.? - Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, OISE/University of Toronto and Special Adviser on Education to the Premier of Ontario

?How opportune that Brent Davies and Tim Brighouse have produced a book on "Passionate Leadership". As school leaders are becoming increasingly disillusioned with instrumental forms of educational reform, Davies, Brighouse and their contributors offer a new vision of leadership one that is driven by a belief that teaching is about enabling every child to reach their potential, and a conviction that schools should be places filled with joy and optimism in the pursuit of social justice. This inspiration will encourage all our leaders to take their work to a new level.? - Professor David Hopkins, HSBC iNet Chair of International Leadership, Formerly the Chief Adviser to three Secretary of States

In this book, internationally recognized writers on leadership explore what makes leaders passionate about their role and their schools.

The contributors show that leadership must move on from the realm of a role or job towards an energy and commitment for enhancing children?s learning and children?s lives. They maintain that passion must be the driving force that moves vision into action, through a range of chapters from internationally known contributors Brent Davies, Tim Brighouse, Geoff Southworth, Chris Day, John MacBeath, Andy Hargreaves, John Novak, Brain Caldwell, and Alan Flintham. What sustains and drives leaders to achieve in a changing and challenging educational environment? What maintains their passion for education and children?s achievement? This book seeks to answer these questions.

The book is essential for all students on leadership programs and educational professionals looking to achieve self and organisational improvement.

Index

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Added to a page number ‘f’ denotes a figure.

absentee landlord syndrome 70

Academies 91

Academy movement, passionate leadership research 91–106

accelerated leadership succession 145

‘accentuate the positive’ 169–70

accountability

culture of 2–3, 21

demotivation 157, 158f

inquiry-based 116

internal 116

matching with responsibility 115

achievement(s)

celebrating 203

passion for 78–80

active trust 85

activist professionalism 85

administration, and demotivation 157, 158f

Anglo-Saxon countries, leaders in 139

Apple, Michael 124–5

appreciating, educative experiences 41–3

Australian Catholic University (ACU) 71

authentic leaders 71

Awakening the Sleeping Giant 115

Barzano, G. 116

behaviourism 46

behaviours, of passionate teachers 18f

being ‘on all the time’ 52–3

belief networks 66

beliefs 1, 18f, 20, 31

Bellfield Primary School 192–3

bettering, educative experiences 42–3

‘Bill Shankly’ management 86

Blackmore, Jill 135

Blair, Tony 117, 183

brevity, of headteacher’s work 166

Brighouse, Tim 3, 188, 198–9

Brotto, F. 116

Brown, Gordon 179–80, 183, 184

buildings 100–1

Canadian schools, Change Over Time? study 145

capacity, creating, among staff 24–6

capital, transformation of schools 189f, 190–1

enchanting leadership 192–3

care, passion for 80–1, 202–3

career development 70

‘carer versus manager tension’ 71

caring

exploitation of women’s capacity for 135

leadership that is passionate about 39–41

celebrating achievements 203

certainty, myth of passionate...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Editors and contributors
• Introduction: Passionate leadership
• Section one: Core ideas about passionate teachers, leaders and schools
• Section two: Passionate leadership
• Section three: Research on passionate leadership
• Section four: Passionate leadership – schools and teachers
• Section five: Building a model of passionate leadership
• Conclusion
• Index