Beschreibung:
In this era of externally imposed mandates, regulations dominate education. Fortunately, there are schools where education thrives despite the pressures of test-driven agendas. Featured in Paradoxes of Reform: Change-Minded Superintendents, Language, Leadership, and Dualism of Progress are superintendents who manage imposed change without abandoning local visions of good schooling, and who are unafraid to uphold their own views of what is important to students. By embracing what this book calls boundary-spanning leadership and resisting the bureaucratization of the mind, these superintendents prevent their systems from becoming schooling machines with a non-democratic or counter-educative agenda.
Foreword - Acknowledgements - Leadership in a Time of Reform - The Field of Leadership Studies: A Critical Evaluation - Archetypes of Reform-Minded Leadership - Life History Research Design - Echoes of History: Boundary-Spanning and Reform-Minded Leadership - Dualism in the Interviews - A Panopticon View of Schools - Conclusion - Appendix A - Appendix B - Appendix C - Appendix D - Index.