Making sense of problems in primary headship

Managing problems has always been a major responsibility of headship, but a substantial number of primary heads now regard their role as especially problematic. With a steadily expanding set of responsibilities and an increasingly demanding set of constituencies to satisfy, the problems which imping...

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Main Authors Dunning, Gerald (Author), Elliott, Tony (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
Subjects
School principals.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781789739039
9781789739053
DOI10.1108/9781789739039
Physical Description1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) ; cm

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Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • Introduction
  • Part I: What's the problem?
  • Chapter 1 Mapping the minefield: explaining the research studies
  • Chapter 2 Landmarks in the minefield: generic problem issues
  • Chapter 3 New heads on their blocks: the problems of assuming headship
  • Chapter 4 Hard labour: managing a problematic workload
  • Chapter 5 Close encounters: problematic colleagues
  • Chapter 6 Clients and consumers: problematic parents and pupils
  • Chapter 7 More checks than balances: problematic partners in school governance
  • Chapter 8 Counting the cost: the personal impact of headship
  • Part II: What every head should know
  • Chapter 9 Making sense of headship: knowing what
  • Chapter 10 Making sense of headship: knowing how
  • Chapter 11 Back to the future: revisiting classic knowledge bases for problem analysis and framing
  • Chapter 12 Learning the ropes? On the ropes? Making sense of headteacher succession and socialisation
  • Chapter 13 Putting problems in perspective: strategy and reflection in problem management
  • Chapter 14 Hands on hearts and fingers on pulses
  • Index
  • References.

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