Understanding Educational Complexity : : Integrating Practices and Perspectives for 21st Century Leadership /

Understanding Educational Complexity : : Integrating Practices and Perspectives for 21st Century Leadership / / Brad Kershner.

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"Our ability to understand and improve the field of education depends upon our ability to understand human development, culture, and society. We cannot understand what is happening in schools unless we understand the context in which schools exist. Through meaningful stories of school leadershi...

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Superior document:Educational Leadership and Leaders in Contexts ; 006
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Kershner, Brad,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : Brill | Sense, , 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Educational Leadership and Leaders in Contexts ; 006.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Complexity of Everything
  • Two Schools, Two Principals, Myriad Challenges
  • Wicked Complexity and Integral Theory
  • Complexity Leadership
  • Distributed Leadership
  • The Complex Systems View
  • Jeffrey Jackson School: Repetitive Reform and the Slow Process of Adaptive Change
  • Culture, Climate, and Collaboration
  • Distributed Leadership: Consistency and Structured Collaboration
  • Instructional Leadership: Principal Presence in the Classroom
  • Reform is in the Eye of the Beholder
  • Saint Catherine's School: Collective Urgency at the Edge of Chaos
  • DREAM BIG: Creating a Common School Culture
  • Distributed Leadership: Creating Structures for Organizational Learning
  • Instructional Leadership: Challenging and Supporting Teachers
  • Guiding Emergence through Challenge, Support, and Balance
  • Case Study Summary: Contextualizing Processes and Outcomes
  • Perpetual Learning in an Integral Ecology
  • Post-Postmodern Pluralism: Integrating Perspectives on Leadership and Change
  • Subjective Realities: Understanding the Spectrum of Perspectives
  • Social Realities: Surfacing System Infrastructures and Ideological Influences
  • Methodological Hindsight: Reflections on Systems Thinking, Integral Theory, and Educational Research
  • Fostering and Assessing Development in Complex Systems
  • Plea for a Post-Postmodern Paradigm of Practice
  • Positionality as a Kosmic Address
  • Postscript: Phronetic Social Science and Methodological Metacognition.

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