The Landscape of Leadership Preparation: Reframing the Education of School Administrators / Edition 1

by Joseph F. Murphy

Overview

In this book, the author offers a new vision of the purpose of leadership preparation programmes, and a series of principles to guide the development of the knowledge base, instructional strategies and structures in defining future programmes.

The design presented is based on: lessons learned from an extensive review of training programmes over the last 100 years; an in-depth investigation into the problems currently plaguing preparation programmes, and an examination of the important changes likely to shape the future of education and educational leadership.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803960275
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/09/1992
Series:	Leadership Training Series
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joseph F. Murphy is the Frank W. Mayborn Chair and associate dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The Ohio State University, where he was the William Ray Flesher Professor of Education.

In the public schools, he has served as an administrator at the school, district, and state levels, including an appointment as the executive assistant to the chief deputy superintendent of public instruction in California. His most recent appointment was as the founding president of the Ohio Principals Leadership Academy. At the university level, he has served as department chair and associate dean.

He is past vice president of the American Educational Research Association and was the founding chair of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). He is co-editor of the AERA Handbook on Educational Administration (1999) and editor of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) yearbook, The Educational Leadership Challenge (2002).

His work is in the area of school improvement, with special emphasis on leadership and policy. He has authored or co-authored 18 books in this area and edited another 12. His most recent authored volumes include Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement (2002), Leadership for Literacy: Research-Based Practice, Pre K-3 (2003), Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement (2005), Preparing School Leaders: Defining a Research and Action Agenda (2006), and Turning Around Failing Schools: Lessons From the Organizational Sciences.

Table of Contents

Charting the Path
PART ONE: THE PAST
The Ideological and Prescriptive Eras
The Behavioral Science and Dialectic Eras
PART TWO: THE CURRENT SCENE
The Current Scene
A Critical Analysis
PART THREE: THE FUTURE
A New Vision of Education and Leadership
Preparing Leaders for Tomorrow's Schools