School and System Leadership Changing Roles for Primary Headteachers

School leadership is undergoing significant change as headteachers respond to new opportunities and challenges offered to or imposed on them as a result of government policy. There have been increasing calls for transformational change to redesign the school system to provide a suitable workforce for the knowledge economy and to manage the anticipated shortage of future school leaders. Sue Robinson combines her professional experience as a practising primary headteacher and National Leader of Education with recent research into the impact of government policy on the roles of primary heads to offer an analysis of the shifting nature of school leadership. Headteachers have taken advantage of roles available including consultancy, leadership of academies and federations and children's centres.

Acknowledgements / Foreword - David Hopkins / Introduction / Part I: Policy Contexts and the Challenges of Headship / 1. The Changing Landscape of Headship: From Consensus to System Redesign / 2. The Challenges of Headship: Policies and Themes from Labour's Second Term and The Coalition / 3. Changing Roles: Leadership, Management and CPD / Part II: Changing School Organizations and Roles for Headteachers / 4. The Development of New Roles for Headteachers / 5. Changing Internal Roles and System Leadership / 6. Standards, Accountability and Leadership / 7. The Strategic Leader: Building Capacity / Part III: Findings and Implications for School Leadership and Government Policy / 8. Key Findings for School Leadership / 9. Implications and recommendations for Government Policy / References / Index