Leading and Managing Extended Schools: Ensuring Every Child Matters (Education Leadership for Social Justice) - Softcover

Middlewood, David; Parker, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412948304 ISBN 13: 9781412948302

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

The authors discuss effective leadership in extended schooling to fulfill Every Child Matters mandates and provide case studies demonstrating what is possible in a variety of settings.

About this title

About the Author:

David Middlewood is currently a part-time Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Studies in the University of Warwick, having previously worked at the University of Lincoln and the University of Leicester where he was Deputy Director of the Centre for Educational Leadership and Management. Prior to working in Higher Education, David taught in schools for many years, culminating in the principalship  of a comprehensive secondary school for nine years, where awards were won for creative arts and equal opportunities. He has taught and researched extensively in the UK and also in various countries in Europe and Africa, being a visiting professor in New Zealand and in South Africa. David has written and edited more than twenty books, many on people leadership and management, strategic leadership, appraisal, practitioner research and some recent research includes work on high performing teams, support staff and student voice. He was co-editor of two professional journals for both primary and secondary school leaders for over six years. He recently co-authored a book on the  leadership of groups of schools and his current work (with Ian Abbott) concerns leadership of learning for disadvantaged pupils.

Review:

′What is particularly pleasing about this book, from the school leader′s point of view, is the clear and focused approach the authors adopt to placing extended school′s approaches at the heart of the school improvement agenda...Lucid, accessible and extremely well structured...perhaps ′extending′ using Middlewood and Parkers′ approach, will lead to every person feeling they mattered′ -
Management in Education

′This is a much needed book to provide insights and advice on current developments in the field of extended schooling, [combining] research amd practical experience in a perceptive and authoritative account...The book is well written in an accessible style and provides excellent case examples that bring an authenticity to the narrative...This is a very valuable contribution to the literature and is very timely as we consider future educational provision′ -
Professor Brent Davies, Professor of International Leadership Development,
The University of Hull

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1412948304
• ISBN 13: 9781412948302
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176