Full Description
This book explores school processes that shape student learning and principals' leadership. It uses an interdisciplinary approach by applying the complexity governance and leadership theories drawn from public administration and leadership discourse in education. The strength of this book lies in identifying the latent processes that determine governance and leadership using interaction, inter-relatedness and interdependence through explanation building used in advanced qualitative analysis which hitherto rarely used in education. For this purpose, it first draws organised data developed as leadership function-behaviour interaction in the book School leadership in India: Styles, functions, behaviours and practices written by the same author and published by Routledge in 2025. Another important feature of the volume is how it applies robust theories drawing from public administration and educational leadership using an interdisciplinary approach that was rare to find in studying school governance and leadership.
This book will be of interest to researchers, academicians working in the area of educational leadership and management, school and teacher education in universities, research institutes, think-tanks working on education policy, good governance and public policy in general. It is also relevant in management institutes, public administration, development studies and public policy in universities.
Contents
List of figures vii List of tables x Preface xviii PART I Governance and leadership in school education 1 1 Governance and leadership for schooling 3 2 Complexity governance and leadership for school education 16 PART II Governance and leadership for setting a direction for schooling 39 3 Defining and governing the purpose of schooling 41 4 Creating and governing a child-friendly school 73 PART III Governance and leadership for learning culture 167 5 Governing socio-emotional spaces for leading a learning culture 169 6 Leading teacher professional development 237 PART IV Impact school governance and leadership 307 7 Transforming student learning 309 8 Self-confidence among school leaders 338 School governance and leadership in India 397 9 The trajectory of school leadership and governance in India 399 10 Extending the theory of complexity governance and leadership for school education 409 References 444 Index 452
