Investing in our education leading, learning, researching and the doctorate

This volume acknowledges the need for better understanding in leadership, management and administration of new knowledge which is crucial for effective leadership in a period of massive policy reform and deepening austerity in education. The doctorate is key to meeting this global challenge as it of...

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Other Authors Rayner, Stephen, Taysum, Alison
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
SeriesInternational perspectives on higher education research ; v. 13.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781784411312
ISSN1479-3628 ;
DOI10.1108/S1479-3628201413
Physical Description1 online resource (270 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : investing in our education? Leading, learning, researching and the doctorate / Alison Taysum, Stephen Rayner
  • Academic and professional knowledge in the professional doctorate / David Scott
  • Doctoral study in challenging times : entrenching banality or revitalising prospects for 'wicked' intellectual work. The case of Educational Administration / Marlene Morrison
  • Leadership : skilled manager or virtuous professional? / Richard Pring
  • New directions for the doctoral thesis / Richard Andrews
  • Western doctoral programmes as public service, cultural diplomacy or intellectual imperialism? Expatriate educational leadership teaching in the United Arab Emirates / Eugenie A. Samier
  • Can we impact leadership practice through teaching democracy and social justice? / Carolyn Shields
  • The education doctorate (Ed.D.) and educational leader dispositions and values in England and the United States / Alison Taysum, Charles L. Slater
  • Democratic citizenship education and Islamic education : on sceptical doctoral encounters / Yusef Waghid
  • Developing nodes in leading networks of knowledge for leader and leadership development : some African students' perspectives on their experience of doctoral education / Emefa Takyi-Amoako
  • Investing in our education? Leading, learning, researching and the doctorate / Annette Thomas-Gregory, Justine Mercer
  • Conclusions : the doctoral dividend; leading, learning, researching / Stephen Rayner, Alison Taysum.