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Leadership as Lunacy: And Other Metaphors for Educational Leadership

Autor Jacky Lumby, Fenwick W. English
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 aug 2010
Leadership as Lunacy: And Other Metaphors for Educational Leadership is an innovative look at leadership models and behaviours—and what school leaders and stakeholders alike can learn from them. The authors guide readers on a journey of "intellectual pyrotechnics," drawing you through historical perspectives and cognitive possibilities that inspire, resolve, confuse, and provoke reflection on the state of leadership in education. The authors examine:
- Various interpretations of metaphor and how metaphors have been used to define leadership
- The current debate and discourse pertaining to educational leadership models
- How metaphors can stimulate reflection and inspire self-growth.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412974271
ISBN-10: 1412974275
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

"Lumby and English have exposed the power of language to shape meaning, engage, and enrich. Their work is an important contribution to how we understand and practice leadership in all fields."
"This book will challenge, enlighten and transform. Ultimately, the authors invite us to re-examine our core values and place the humanity of children at the center of our work."
"Authors Jacky Lumby and Fenwick English look at educational leadership through the lens of language and how metaphors have sometimes limited and stymied the true meaning of education and what educational leaders can and should be working to achieve."

Cuprins

Preface
About the Authors
1. The Presence and Power of Metaphors
Not Just Words
From Gilgamesh to Obama: Metaphors Communicate and Connect
How Metaphors Work
Why a Book About Metaphors for Educational Leaders?
Structure
Toward a New Kind of Wisdom
2. Leadership as Machine
Running the Factory
Leaders Running the Machine
Evaluating the Machine
On Being a Machine
The Machine Metaphor
3. Leadership as Accounting
The Relentless Pursuit of Rationality and Waste
Educational Hyperrationalization
The Cheating Culture: Corrosion of the Means/Ends Accountability Continuum
The Accounting Metaphor: A Chimera Wrapped Up as an Ideology
4. Leadership as War
Preparing for a Board Meeting
The Ambivalence of War Metaphors
Military Admonitions, Educational Situations, and Contradictions
The Way of the Warrior Is Death: Education Is Life
5. Leadership as Sport
Sports: Language and Action
The Little ?Closed-System? World of an Athletic Team
The Problem of the Charismatic Coach as a Model for the CEO
Understanding the Nature of Power
The Sports Metaphor: An Impossible Dream
6. Leadership as Theater
The School as Stage: What Lies Beneath?
The School as Staged: Long Run or Repertory?
The School as Staged: Acting Leadership
The School as Ritual Performance
School as Theater
7. Leadership as Religion
The Concept of the External Supreme Being
Towards Perfection: The Idea of Progress
Manifestations of Religion in Management and Educational Leadership
The Presence of ?Managementspeak? and Religious Rituals in School Practices
Warring Metaphors
The Power of Religious Metaphors: The Universal Versus The Dogmatic and Partisan Experience
Learning How to Lead Outside the Command and Control Model
8. Leadership as Lunacy
Lunacy as a Form of Toxicity
Leaders as Lunatics
The Lunatic Psyche
Symptoms, Signs and Pathologies
The Lunacy Metaphor
9. Metaphors of Leadership
The Uses of Metaphors
Grand Narratives
Positive Metaphors
So, Where to Now?
References
Index

Notă biografică

Jacky Lumby (Ph.D. University of Leicester) is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education at the University of Southampton, UK. She has taught and led in a range of educational settings, including secondary/high schools, community and further/technical education. She has also worked for a Training and Enterprise Council, with a regional responsibility for developing leaders across the public and private sectors. She has researched and published widely on educational policy, leadership and management in schools and colleges, in the UK and internationally. Her work on leadership encompasses a range of perspectives, including diversity issues, comparative and international perspectives and leading upper secondary education. She has co-edited International handbook on the preparation and development of school leaders (2008). Her most recent book is, with Marianne Coleman, Leadership and Diversity: Challenging Theory and Practice in Education (2007). She is co- editor of the journal International Studies in Educational Administration and a member of the Council of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society.

Descriere

By looking at how metaphors have been used to identify leadership, this book helps school leaders to examine and learn from various leadership models and behaviours.