Description
Combines three key and topical areas of global interest for education researchers: life history research, passion in teaching and school leadership
Contributors from four countries: UK, Ireland, Norway and Denmark - giving the book an international perspective
Professor Ivor Goodson has written the introduction - he is a leading name in life history study
Ciaran Sugrue is on the Editorial Boards of several international journals and is therefore well placed to edit this book.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Ivor Goodson Section 1: Passionate Principalship 1. Putting 'Real Life' into School Leadership: Connecting Identities, Leadership and Life History, Ciaran Sugrue Section 2: People in Principalship: Stories of Engaged Selves 2. Sustained Motivation Embedded in Place: Living with Accountability and Mandated Change, Colin Biott and John Spindler 3. Old Metaphors, New Meanings: Being a Woman Principal, Jorunn Møller 4. Memberships and Relationships in a Changing Context, Lejf Moos 5. Creating Continuity through Change: Comfort with Uncertainty, Ciaran Sugrue Section 3: Passionate Principalship: Learning from Life Histories 6. Coping with Accountability - Tensions between Reason and Emotion, Jorunn Møller 7. Regulation and Trust: Negotiating Relationship, Lejf Moos 8. Immediacy and Distance: Inter-generational Professional Learning, John Spindler and Colin Biott 9. Being Principal: Leadership Inside Out, Ciaran Sugrue Section 4: Beyond Passion in Principalship 10. Principalship: Beyond Pleasure, Pain and Passion, Ciaran Sugrue
