Table of Contents

ContentsList of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part 1 Understanding Organizations

Chapter 1 Understanding Schools and Districts as Organizations

Chapter 2 Schools as Open Systems: There’s a Whole World Out There

Chapter 3 School Leadership as Organized Anarchy: Taming the Untamable Beast

Chapter 4 Organizational Learning

Chapter 5 What Do Leaders Do?

Part 2 Leading Schools

Chapter 6 Transformational Leadership and Change

Chapter 7 Leading Instruction

Chapter 8 Leading With Others: Distributed Leadership and its Conceptual Ancestors

Chapter 9 Epilogue: Where We Stand at This Moment

About the Author

S. David Brazer is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Stanford University, USA.

Scott C. Bauer is Professor of Education and Associate Dean of Advanced Education and Doctoral Programs at the University of Colorado, Denver, USA.

Bob L. Johnson, Jr. is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Alabama, USA.

Reviews

"This book is a major resource for principal preparation programs that avoids simple management platitudes while providing thought provoking examples of dilemmas of leadership practice for discussion. The integration of organization theory and real cases will engage both instructors and students."
--Karen Seashore Louis, Regents Professor, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota"This text provides a range of theoretical and historical perspectives on school organizations relevant to the work of educational leaders and engages readers in experiences intended to demonstrate the value of such perspectives for their practice. This is a very ambitious undertaking which is mostly quite successful."
--Kenneth Leithwood, Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto