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The Landscape of Leadership Preparation

Reframing the Education of School Administrators

By: Joseph F. Murphy

How do we prepare leaders with the ability to turn our schools into educational success stories? The book reveals the characteristics an educational leader must develop to meet the needs of students and schools and provides an innovative design for transforming preparation programmes to educate leaders for tomorrow. In this book, the author offers a new vision of the purpose of preparation programmes, and a series of principles to guide the development of the knowledge base, instructional strategies and structures in defining future programmes. The design presented is based on :lessons learned from an extensive review of training programmes over the last century; on an in-depth investigation into the problems currently plaguing preparation programmes; and an examination of the important changes likely to shape the future of education and educational leadership.

This excellent resource should be read by anyone teaching or taking courses in leadership and by those involved in staff development at all levels.

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780803960282
Published By: Corwin
Year: 1992
Page Count: 240
Publication date: September 09, 1992

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In this book, the author offers a new vision of the purpose of leadership preparation programmes, and a series of principles to guide the development of the knowledge base, instructional strategies and structures in defining future programmes.

The design presented is based on: lessons learned from an extensive review of training programmes over the last 100 years; an in-depth investigation into the problems currently plaguing preparation programmes, and an examination of the important changes likely to shape the future of education and educational leadership.

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Joseph F. Murphy

Joseph F. Murphy is the Frank W. Mayborn Chair and associate dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The Ohio State University, where he was the William Ray Flesher Professor of Education. In the public schools, he has served as an administrator at the school, district, and state levels, including an appointment as the executive assistant to the chief deputy superintendent of public instruction in California. His most recent appointment was as the founding president of the Ohio Principals Leadership Academy. At the university level, he has served as department chair and associate dean.

He is past vice president of the American Educational Research Association and was the founding chair of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). He is co-editor of the AERA Handbook on Educational Administration (1999) and editor of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) yearbook, The Educational Leadership Challenge (2002).

His work is in the area of school improvement, with special emphasis on leadership and policy. He has authored or co-authored 18 books in this area and edited another 12. His most recent authored volumes include Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement (2002), Leadership for Literacy: Research-Based Practice, PreK-3 (2003), Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement (2005), Preparing School Leaders: Defining a Research and Action Agenda (2006), and Turning Around Failing Schools: Lessons From the Organizational Sciences.\

Table of Contents

Charting the Path

PART ONE: THE PAST

The Ideological and Prescriptive Eras

The Behavioral Science and Dialectic Eras

PART TWO: THE CURRENT SCENE

The Current Scene

A Critical Analysis

PART THREE: THE FUTURE

A New Vision of Education and Leadership

Preparing Leaders for Tomorrow's Schools

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