The New Work of Educational Leaders; Changing Leadership Practice in an Era of School Reform

In The New Work of Educational Leaders, Peter Gronn provides a new framework for understanding leadership practice. The work of leaders will increasingly be shaped by three overriding but contradictory themes: design; distribution; and disengagement. These are the architecture of school and educational leadership. Contents: Introduction/Part I: The Architecture of Leadership/Designing Leaders/A Distributed View of Leadership/The Disengagement of Leaders/Part II: The Ecology of Leadership/What do Leaders Do?/Leaders' Committees and Meetings/Leadership Teams/The Emotion of Leaders/Leadership as Greedy Work

Peter Gronn is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia