School Leadership - International Perspectives

Preface: School Leadership: International Perspectives.- . 1. Improving Schools in Hong Kong: A Description of the Improvement Model and Some Reflections on Its Impact on Schools, Teachers and School Principals; Mel West and Mel Ainscow.- 2. Structure, Culture Leadership - Prerequisites for Successful Schools? Measuring the Social and Civic Objectives; Björn Ahlström and Jonas Höög.- 3. Educational Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice; Olof Johansson and Elisabeth Zachrisson.- 4. School Leadership Effectiveness The Growing Insight in the Importance of School Leadership for the Quality and Development of Schools and their Pupils; Stephan Gerhard Huber and Daniel Muijs.- 5. The Principal as Educational Leader: What Makes the Difference; Michael Chirichello.- 6. From Successful School Leadership towards Distributed Leadership; Lejf Moos.- 7. The Professionalization of Instructional Leadership in the United States: Competing Values and Current Tensions; Patricia Burch.- 8. Values-based Leadership: At the Heart of Sustaining School Reform and Improvement; Michelle A. Johnston and Michael Harris.- 9. System-sensitive Professional Leaders in Education; Hanja Hansen.- 10. Multiple Thinking and Creativity in School Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Development; Yin Cheong Cheng.- 11. Realising the Potential of System Leadership; David Hopkins.- 12. Preparing School Leaders - International Approaches in Leadership Development; Stephan Gerhard Huber.- 13. Developing New School Leaders: Application of International and Local Knowledge to Practice; Linda Kaser and Judy Halbert.- 14. Investigating the Use of Capability and Standards - Referenced Frameworks to Support the Professional Learning of Aspiring, New and Experienced School Leaders in the Public Education System in New South Wales, Australia; Norman McCulla.- 15. Cloning Their Own: Aspirant Principals and the School- Based Selection Game; Peter Gronn and Kathey Lacey.- 16. The Recruitmentand Selection of