Creative Educational Leadership: A Practical Guide to Leadership as Creativity - Softcover

Turnbull, Jacquie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441167749 ISBN 13: 9781441167743

Publisher: Bloomsbury Education, 2012

Synopsis

Creativity is now essential in a global economy, for business, and for the benefit of society. To enable young people to flourish in an uncertain future, education needs to acknowledge creativity as an essential life skill rather than restricting it to activities of a broadly artistic nature. This book helps educational leaders to identify the tensions within education systems that hinder the development of creative capacity and may influence decision-making towards pragmatic rather than creative solutions. In order to develop creative capacity, leadership itself needs to be a creative action to resolve limitations, and to develop original solutions to the challenge of educating for work and life in the twenty-first century. Recognising the vital importance of creativity to young people facing a rapidly changing world, Jacquie Turnbull reveals how, in highly effective leadership, a unique combination of values, relationships and personal attributes enables creativity. Packed with examples of successful practice, the book challenges you to build creative capacity - within staff teams and for young people - and to develop as a creative leader yourself.

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About the Author

Jacquie Turnbull has been a secondary teacher, an HE lecturer and a trainer specialising in improving teachers' personal and professional effectiveness. She has been Deputy Chair of the General Teaching Council (Wales) and Chair of an FE College in the UK. She is currently Director of a company specialising in profiling to improve professional effectiveness. Jacquie also received an
MBE in 2011 for her work in education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Education
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441167749
• ISBN 13: 9781441167743
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192