Editors:
- Illustrates by using case studies of school leaders’ experiences
- Covers a broad range of key school leadership domains and themes
- Makes sense of contemporary leadership challenges in schools
- Advances a deeper understanding of the demands of leadership in schools
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Education (SPTE)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
The chapters first provide a background to the theme under examination and a theoretical basis for discussion. They then narrate the case that shows how school leaders interpret and implement policy initiatives in their respective schools or lead change in that area. The case studies span over a wide range of domains such as instructional leadership, assessment leadership, stakeholder engagement, professional learning communities, and school branding. The data collected from these case studies came primarily from interviews of educators in theirrespective school contexts, in addition to other sources of data such as artifacts. Each case study highlights descriptions, interpretations, and perspectives across school contexts, which is consistent with the proposition that school leadership is very much shaped by context. At the end of each chapter, there are guiding questions to help readers critically analyse and reflect on the main learning points of the case.
Keywords
- school leadership
- instructional leadership
- assessment for learning
- design thinking
- school culture and identity
- professional development
- stakeholder engagement
- home-school partnerships
- professional learning communities
- information communication technology
- school culture and branding
- character education
- citizenship education
Editors and Affiliations
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National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Benjamin Wong, Salleh Hairon, Pak Tee Ng
About the editors
Salleh Hairon is Assistant Professor at the Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group, and Assistant Dean, Doctor in Education, at the Graduate Studies and Professional Learning Programme Office, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Education from the University of Bath, and Masters of Arts in School Effectiveness and School Improvement from the University of London, Institute of Education. He teaches in undergraduate, postgraduate and in-service courses relating to teacher and leadership education and preparation. Prior to his academic career, he has taught in both primary and secondary schools in Singapore. His research focus is on school leadership for teacher collective learning, which includes distributed leadership, teacher leadership, professional learning communities, action research and professional development.
Pak Tee Ng is Associate Dean, Leadership Learning at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He oversees and teaches in milestone executive programmes for leaders in Singapore schools (Principal-ship and Head-of-Department-ship). Pak Tee’s main areas of teaching, research, training and consultancy at NIE are Educational Leadership, Educational Policies, Learning Organisation, Change Management, Innovation, Complexity, and Coaching. He has authored several books and numerous journal articles, book chapters and conference papers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: School Leadership and Educational Change in Singapore
Editors: Benjamin Wong, Salleh Hairon, Pak Tee Ng
Series Title: Springer Texts in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74746-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74744-6Published: 09 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74746-0Published: 29 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2366-7672
Series E-ISSN: 2366-7680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 220
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, Schools and Schooling