Australian Journal of Education articles from November 2007

Australian Journal of Education archives from November 2007

Introduction by the guest editor.(SPECIAL ISSUE: Educational leadership and school renewal)
November 1, 2007... The distinguished Harvard scholar John Kotter provided what is generally regarded as the most helpful distinction between leadership and management to be found in the literature (Kotter, 1990). Leadership calls for establishing direction,...

Successful school leadership: what is it and who decides?
November 1, 2007... Arguments presented in this paper and the evidence from the Tasmanian Successful School Principals Project support broadening what counts for successful schools and school leadership. This broadening needs to embrace student outcomes, including...

The leadership of the improvement of teaching and learning: lessons from initiatives with positive outcomes for students.
November 1, 2007... The purpose of this study was to examine how leaders foster school renewal by facilitating and participating in the types of teacher professional learning and development that improve student academic and nonacademic outcomes. The methodology...

How schools get moving and keep improving: leadership for teacher learning, student success and school renewal.
November 1, 2007... There is a vast body of research confirming the important influence of the classroom teacher on student achievement. A key issue, then, is how the quality of teaching and learning within individual classrooms can be influenced and improved....

Student leadership: necessary research.
November 1, 2007... Interest in student leadership or leadership by young people has always existed in school and community settings and while there are many programs devoted to leadership development and training, we believe that there is a need for focused...

Educational leadership and school renewal in Wales.
November 1, 2007... The paper sets out the main characteristics of the school system in Wales since 1999 when responsibility for education was devolved to the newly-created National Assembly for Wales. It moves on to consider the advances made in student...

System leadership for educational renewal in England: the case of federations and executive heads.
November 1, 2007... Executive heads are those head teachers in England who lead two or more schools that have entered into a federation. One of the more common forms of federations involves a lead school working to improve a partner school (or schools). The...

Renewing the mind or bringing the knowledge age to the schoolhouse.
November 1, 2007... The purpose of this article is twofold. The first objective is to update the traditional craft of education by revising the folk theory of mind that underpins such traditions. This is necessary if we are to develop a new learning science as the...

Going through the emotions: leadership that gets to the heart of school renewal.
November 1, 2007... Holistic school renewal will require a qualitatively different discourse than the current uneasy conversations about school improvement and school effectiveness. Leadership for whole school renewal requires emotionally safe spaces for learning...

Developing Sustainable Leadership.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Developing Sustainable Leadership Brent Davies (Ed.) London: Paul Chapman Educational Publishing/Sage, 2007, ISBN 1 412 923 964 Sustainability is one of the emerging concepts in education--in this book Deal refers it as 'today's hot idea in...