School-Level Leadership in Post- Conflict Societies.

How do different contexts influence the nature and character of school leadership?This book is predicated on the simple, yet profound, observation that school leadership can only be understood within the context in which it is exercised. The observation is particularly valid in relation to post-conf...

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Main Author: Clarke, Simon R. P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • The case for studying educational leadership at the individual school level in post-conflict societies
  • Educational leadership at the individual school level in post-conflict societies: the broad context
  • Angola: fostering teacher professionalism and safe schools
  • Ghana: resolving the tensions between colonial values and contemporary policies
  • Sri lanka: school leadership in the conflict-affected north and east
  • Rwanda: challenges for school leadership in a transitional post-conflict nation
  • Kenya: school leadership and the 2007 post-election violence
  • Solomon islands: adaptive leadership strategies in schools
  • Lebanon: post-civil implications for schools
  • Kosovo: transitioning school leadership from conflict to coherence
  • Timor-leste: the now in the not yet of school leadership
  • Northern ireland: some post-conflict challenges in education
  • Educational leadershp in post-new war societies: insights from the field into challenges and possibilities.