Conversations with principals : issues, values, and politics

Responsibility
Andrew E. Dubin.
Imprint
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, ©2006.
Physical description
1 online resource (xx, 295 pages)

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Author/Creator
Dubin, Andrew E.

Contents/Summary

Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-288) and index.
Contents
  • Introduction The Role of the Principal Connecting the Principal to the Reader How the Principal Interviews were formulated Organization of the Book Connecting Across Interviews Matrix of Principal Interviews
  • PART 1: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  • Chapter 1: Changing the School Culture
  • Chapter 2: Personal and Professional Belief Systems
  • Chapter 3: Maintaining Stability and History
  • Chapter 4: Social Exchange and Power
  • Chapter 5: The Lens of Decision-Making
  • PART 2: MIDDLE SCHOOL
  • Chapter 6: Leadership Focus and Planning
  • Chapter 7: Evaluation and the Political Arena
  • Chapter 8: Students in Transition
  • PART 3: HIGH SCHOOL
  • Chapter 9: Perceptions and Assumptions
  • Chapter 10: Addressing Organizational and Personal Needs
  • Chapter 11: Group Dynamics and Multi-Nationalism
  • PART 4: NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND
  • Chapter 12: A Principal's Approach to NCLB
  • Chapter 13: A Superintendent's Perspective on NCLB Readings and Resources References Appendix.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Summary
The book orients and prepares aspiring and practicing administrators to be more effective in dealing with real and practical issues and problems in schools. It is a succinct, problem focused, oral history of issues articulated by newly hired and experience administrators as they consider their decisions. It reflects the honest introspections of practicing administrators, and is unique and original in its approach. It both reinforces existing knowledge and introduces new ideas and insights. Paramount to the information conveyed is the style in which it is presented. By examining leadership issues through the actual words of school leaders, Conversations with Principals distinguishes itself from other leadership material. The text lends itself to a Socratic style of teaching, making it is easy to discuss the issues and themes presented in an open-ended format whereby students exchange ideas and engage in the activities of questioning and analyzing administrative behavior and action. Each oral account is prefaced by contextualizing information about the school leader and the demographics of his or her school. Following each interview there is an analysis of the case, as well as a section with questions and activities for students to complete.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Bibliographic information

Publication date
2006
Access
Use copy Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
Format
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action note
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
ISBN
9781452222622 (electronic bk.)
1452222622 (electronic bk.)
1412916356
9781412916356
1412916364
9781412916363
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