Full Description
Featuring voices from academics, practitioners, school system leaders, school administrators, and graduate students from across Canada and abroad, this unique edited collection offers conceptual discussions and empirical examples of leadership for flourishing in a variety of educational contexts. This volume affirms that by fostering positive leadership, striving for well-being, and encouraging flourishing for all, significant benefits and new potentials will be felt throughout the learning communities. Grounded in theoretical approaches of positive leadership, positive psychology, and positive organizational scholarship, the accounts from K-12, post-secondary, and professional contexts explore the impacts and influences of leadership at all levels of education. Editors and chapter authors describe their research findings and first-hand experiences of supporting educators and school leaders in learning how to grow their agentic role for fostering well-being among all members of the community. The book is divided into three sections: stories of school-level flourishing, stories of personal professional flourishing, and stories of the impacts and influences of positive leadership in various educational contexts.Engaging and practical, this book encourages readers to reflect on the topics through discussion questions and to apply the learning to their own educational and organizational settings. This positively oriented volume will be invaluable for students of educational leadership, education administration, and organizational studies in education, in North America and beyond.
Contents
Foreword: Bringing Out Positive Leadership in Uncertain Time - Megan Crawford
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Striving Toward Wellbeing: Creating Conditions and Structures for Flourishing in Education - Benjamin Kutsyuruba, Sabre Cherkowski, and Keith D. Walker
Section 1: Stories of School-level Flourishing
Chapter 1: Wellness as Foundation for Change: Intersection of Leadership and Trust - Randy Hetherington, Corey Haley, and Bryn Spence
Chapter 2: Implementing the Adult Education Strategy in Eastern Ontario: Exemplary Leadership Practices for Mobilizing Coalition and Supporting Wellbeing - Lorraine Godden, Alexandra Youmans, and Eleanor Newman
Chapter 3: Authority to Empathy, Leader to Servant: How Positive Leadership Can Mobilize Innovative Practices - Stephen MacGregor, Chris Brown, and Jane Flood
Chapter 4: Building Bridges for the Whole Child Education and Flourishing School Community: A Case Study of Effective Principal Leadership - Ma. del Carmen Esper
Chapter 5: Leading with Cultural Proficiency to Cultivate Flourishing Schools - Marco A. Nava, Delia Estrada, and Ileana M. Dávalos
Chapter 6: Positive Leadership Approaches: Principles and Practices for Flourishing Schools - Darcia Roache, Stanley Bruce Thomson, and Jason Marshall
Chapter 7: Flourishing in the Middle: Accessing the Expertise Within - Cherie Finley, Jake Schmidt, and Victoria Handford
Section 2: Stories of Personal Professional Flourishing
Chapter 8: Critical Conversations to Enhance Leaders' Perceptions of Professional Efficacy - Sharon Allan, Pamela Adams, and Carmen Mombourquette
Chapter 9: From Popular Theory to Practical Application: How can Brené Brown's Theories of Courageous Leadership Inform the Fields of International Education, Adult Education, and Online Education? - Jessica Della-Latta and Karen Burkett
Chapter 10: Sensing, Listening, Interpreting, Responding: Interoception in Educational Leadership - Sarah Shepherd
Chapter 11: Acculturation Lessons for Educator Flourishing While Sojourning Overseas - Rebecca Stroud Stasel
Chapter 12: Foreign Languages Education: An Unexplored Road to Positive Leadership and Well-Being - Roberto Jiménez-Arroyo
Section 3: Stories of the Impacts and Influences of Positive Leadership
Chapter 13: Taking an Inventory of Thriving: Ensuring that Graduate and Professional Students Have a Well-stocked Toolkit - Eleftherios Soleas, Heather Coe-Nesbitt, Anoushka Moucessian, and Nadia Arghash
Chapter 14: Appreciative Inquiry in the Classroom: A New Model for Teacher Development - Marine Miglianico, Nancy Goyette, Philippe Dubreuil, and Alain Huot
Chapter 15: Collaborative Leadership as an Approach to Promote Wellbeing on Post-secondary Campuses - Vicki Squires and Chad London
Chapter 16: How Positive Leadership Fosters Flourishing Relationships Towards Positive Outcomes: Reflections from Four Master of Education Students - Jason Anthony Singh, Tanjin Ashraf, Erica Cheng, and Joanne Lieu
Chapter 17: The Role of Relational and Positive Leadership within Doctoral Supervision Context - Maha Al Makhamreh and Benjamin Kutsyuruba
Concluding Thoughts: Momentum for Future Striving - Keith D. Walker, Sabre Cherkowski, and Benjamin Kutsyuruba
About the Editors
About the Contributors
