Full Description
This book discusses school leaders' ability to use digital technologies successfully through specific approaches and techniques. It also discusses the technological challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the obstacles derived from the lack of digital capacity of school leaders in various contexts. The work addresses school leaders' experiences, confidence, competence, skills, and practices to use digital technologies effectively. Also, it explores how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced school leaders' role in establishing effective processes towards educational digital transformation, and provides further knowledge as part of school leaders' digital professional development aspect.The book draws information and knowledge from the thematic areas of technology and school leadership in educational practice and includes both conceptual and empirical information on autonomous and less autonomous educational systems (centralized and decentralized education systems). Overall, this edited book fills the gap with information on the connection between school leadership and technology, as an aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in school organizations.
Contents
Preface.- Part 1. Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Impact of the Pandemic Crisis and the Use of Technology in School Leadership: An Introduction.- Part 2. International Perspectives on School Leadership and Technology during COVID-19.- Chapter 2. Providing Continuity of Student Instruction During and After COVID-19: An International Study of School Leaders' Use of Technology.- Chapter 3. Leadership and Technology Supporting Quality and Equitable Schools Through the Pandemic Crisis.- Chapter 4. School Leadership in Times of Uncertainty: A School Principal's Reflections from Cyprus.- Chapter 5. Rural School Leadership and Digital Technologies: Understandings, Applications, Challenges and Solutions.- Chapter 6. School Principals as Agents on the Path to the Digitization of Greek Schools: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic.- Chapter 7. The Digital Divide-Insights into an Uneven Playing Field.- Chapter 8.Leadership in Rural Texas During COVID-19: Testimonios from the Field.- Chapter 9. School Leadership under the conditions of Digitalization. A German Insight into Conditions and Challenges for School Leaders.- Chapter 10. Digitalization, School Leadership and the New Normal: School Leaders' Perceptions of Post-pandemic Development in School Organizations.- Part 3. Technological Trends on School Leadership.- Chapter 11. Virtual Communities of Practice as a Means of Confronting with Educational 'Emergency Situations' for Inclusive School Communities: The Case of COVID-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 12. AI Tools for Education: The Development of a Free Asynchronous Course.- Part 4. Conclusion.- Chapter 13. School Leaders and Technology During COVID-19: Lessons Learned from the Field and Future Implications.
