Authors: Thomas J. Sergiovanni
ISBN-13: 9780205578580, ISBN-10: 0205578586
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Date Published: February 2008
Edition: 6th Edition
In its revised sixth edition, The Principalship continues to emphasize school culture, standards, and building community, while also providing a moral basis for leadership as a means of navigating contextual issues and constraints that principals routinely face. Studying The Principalship, future principals will explore in-depth the array of decisions that they will be confronted with and how those decisions will affect students, teachers, and school policy.
Extensively updated, the new edition emphasizes diversity as a part of community building; the importance of instructional and shared leadership; and the building of communities of practice, while the book’s trademark concentration on reflective practice is maintained throughout the text. The sixth edition also contains a new “Some Reflections” feature that appears in most chapters and that offers students a chance for further critical thinking and enriched class discussions.
Ch. 1 | Setting the stage : administering as a moral craft | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Views of the principal's job | 23 |
Ch. 3 | The limits of traditional management theory | 72 |
Ch. 4 | A new theory for the principalship | 87 |
Ch. 5 | The school as a moral community | 103 |
Ch. 6 | The forces of leadership and the culture of schools | 126 |
Ch. 7 | The stages of leadership : a developmental view | 158 |
Ch. 8 | Becoming a community of leaders | 172 |
Ch. 9 | Characteristics of successful schools | 189 |
Ch. 10 | Becoming a community of mind | 205 |
Ch. 11 | Making standards work | 238 |
Ch. 12 | Teaching, learning, and community | 246 |
CH. 13 | Instructional leadership, supervision, and teacher development | 269 |
Ch. 14 | Clinical supervision, peer inquiry, and other supervisory practices | 291 |
Ch. 15 | Motivation, commitment, and the teacher's workplace | 310 |
Ch. 16 | The change process | 340 |