Authors: Thomas J. Sergiovanni, Carl Glickman
ISBN-13: 9781412936996, ISBN-10: 1412936993
Format: Paperback
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: June 2006
Edition: 2nd Edition
Thomas J. Sergiovanni is Lillian Radford Professor of Education at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, where he teaches in the school leadership program and in the five-year teacher education program. Sergiovanni received his master's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, his Doctor of Education degree from the University of Rochester, and honorary degrees from the University of San Diego and State University of New York. Prior to joining the faculty at Trinity, he was on the faculty of education administration at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, for 19 years, and he chaired the department for seven years. A former associate editor of Educational Administration Quarterly, Sergiovanni serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education and Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice. Among his recent books are Moral Leadership (1992), Building Community in Schools (1994), Leadership for the Schoolhouse (1996), The Lifeworld of Leadership: Creating Culture, Community, and Personal Meaning in Our Schools (2000), Supervision: A Redefinition (2002), and Strengthening the Heartbeat: Leading and Learning Together in Schools (2005).
In this updated collection of revolutionary articles, Sergiovanni encourages school leaders to discover the craft of moral leadership, practice effective instructional leadership, and build strong learning communities.
Prologue : on rethinking leadership : a conversation with Tom Sergiovanni | ||
Sect. 1 | Leadership as a moral craft | 1 |
Leadership and excellence in schooling : excellent schools need freedom within boundaries | 5 | |
Administering as a moral craft | 19 | |
New sources of leadership authority | 36 | |
Leadership as stewardship | 49 | |
Sect. 2 | The developmental stages of leadership | 61 |
Adding value to leadership gets extraordinary results | 65 | |
Why transformational leadership works and how to provide it | 72 | |
The roots of school leadership | 82 | |
Why we should seek substitutes for leadership | 87 | |
Sect. 3 | Leading the learning community | 97 |
Changing our theory of schooling | 101 | |
Leadership as a practice | 112 | |
Getting practical : enhancing collegiality and intrinsic motivation | 120 | |
The eight basic competencies | 134 | |
Sect. 4 | Value-added leadership | 141 |
The lifeworld of leadership | 145 | |
The virtues of leadership | 152 | |
Craftsman leaders are critical | 166 |