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Synopsis
Grounded in the day-to-day practicalities of school life, this book records the shared musings of eight principals in their attempts to achieve the ideals of democracy and empowerment in their schools. In each case, these ideals are tempered by a range of bureaucratic and political obstacles, contradictions and complexities inherent in the education system.
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Best-selling authors Blase and Blase have teamed up with two outstanding educators to create another excellent book for principals who aspire to democratic leadership in their schools. These authors do not deal in lofty idealism, but rather in the realities of today's schools, including the unavoidable bureaucratic and political obstacles. Democratic Principals in Action is a series of portraits of eight principals, with details revealed from countless interviews. The authors chose successful principals who have a wide variety of leadership styles and are from a diversity of school settings. Through trial and error, learning and growing, disappointment and success, these principals have achieved remarkable success in empowering teachers and implementing shared governance in their schools.
About the Author
Joseph Blase is a professor of educational administration at the University of Georgia. Since receiving his Ph.D. in 1980 from Syracuse University, his research has focused on school reform, transformational leadership, the micropolitics of education, principal-teacher relationships, and the work lives of teachers. His work concentrating on school-level micropolitics received the 1988 Davis Memorial Award given by the University Council for Educational Administration, and his coauthored article published in the Journal of Educational Administration won the W. G. Walker 2000 Award for Excellence. In 1999 he was recognized as an elite scholar, one of the 50 Most Productive and Influential Scholars of Educational Administration in the world. Blase’s books include The Politics of Life in Schools: Power, Conflict, and Cooperation (winner of the 1994 Critic’s Choice Award sponsored by the American Education Studies Association), Bringing Out the Best in Teachers (1994, 2000, 2008); The Micropolitics of Educational Leadership (1995), Empowering Teachers (1994, 2000), Democratic Principals in Action (1995), The Fire Is Back (1997), Handbook of Instructional Leadership (1998, 2004), Breaking the Silence (2003), and Teachers Bringing Out the Best in Teachers (2006). His recent research (coauthored with Jo Blase and Du Fengning, 2008), a national study of principal mistreatment of teachers, appeared in The Journal of Educational Administration. Professor Blase has published over 120 academic articles, chapters, and books.
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- PublisherCorwin
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0803961316
- ISBN 13 9780803961319
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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