Gebundenes Buch

Perspectives on School Leadership in Asia Pacific Contexts

Beschreibung

This book casts a refreshingly new light on current literature on school leadership, which has predominantly been viewed through Western lenses. Accordingly, key concepts and theories on leadership and school leadership have primarily been generated from thinking and research in the Western sphere. This is problematic, considering the fact that the leadership concept or construct, and its practices, are significantly influenced and shaped by contexts, and even situations.
However, there are various contextual conditions and forces that can separately or collectively affect how school leadership is understood and practiced, including social, cultural, historical, geographical, economic and political conditions.
In response, the book seeks to provide readers a better awareness of how the leadership construct or phenomenon is shaped by the varying contexts constantly affecting school leadership, while specifically focusing on the Asia Pacific region. In turn, it highlights various Asia Pacific contexts that shape school leadership, so as to 'speak back' to existing theories on school leadership.

Autor

Dr Salleh Hairon is an Associate Professor, Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group, at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests center on school leadership for teacher learning in communities, comprising topics on distributed leadership, teacher leadership, professional learning communities, teachers' professional development, and action research. Dr Jonathan Wee Pin Goh is an Associate Professor, Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group, at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His teaching and research interests include educational marketing, school leadership, student learning approaches, intercultural communication competence, and cross-cultural aspects of service quality perceptions, as well as customer satisfaction and motivation. In recent years he has increasingly focused on measurement, evaluation and psychometrics, includingdata analysis techniques such as Rasch analysis and hierarchical linear modeling.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Nature Singapore / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-981-32-9158-4
• 1st edition 2019
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9789813291584
• ISBN-10: 9813291583
• Artikelnr.: 57027849