The SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership: Advances in Theory, Research, and Practice Second Edition
Author(s): Fenwick W English (Author)
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Publication Date: 2 Mar. 2011
Edition: Second
Language: English
Print length: 472 pages
ISBN-10: 141298002X
ISBN-13: 9781412980029
Book Description
This fully updated Second Edition offers an unflinching and comprehensive overview of the full range of both practical and theoretical issues facing educational leadership today. Editor Fenwick W. English and 30 renowned authors boldly address the most fundamental and contested issues in the field, including culturally relevant and distributed leadership; critical policy and practice issues predicting the new century′s conflict; the paradox of changes; and the promises, paradoxes, and pitfalls of standards for educational leaders.
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Fenwick W English and 30 renowned authors offer an unflinching and comprehensive overview of a full range of practical and theoretical issues faced by educational leadership today.
About the Author
Fenwick W. English (Ph.D.) is the R. Wendell Eaves Senior Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a position he has held since 2001. As a scholar/practitioner he has held positions as a school principal and superintendent of schools in California and New York and as a department chair, dean, and vice-chancellor of academic affairs at universities in Ohio and Indiana. He is the former President of the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) and of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA). His research has been reported in national and international academic forums. He edited the 2006 SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration, the 2009 SAGE Library of Educational Thought and Practice: Educational Leadership and Administration; and the 2011 SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership (2nd Ed.). In 2013, he received the Living Legend Award from NCPEA for his lifetime contribution to the field of educational leadership.
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