Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World - Hardcover

Bottery, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472568265 ISBN 13: 9781472568267

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Synopsis

Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World argues that current crises in educational policies and practice, including the recruitment and retention of educational leaders, ultimately derive from the interactions between four key challenges which also underpin current global and societal issues of sustainability:
A culture of consumption
Global energy demands
Climate change
Emerging population patterns

Mike Bottery argues that problems in dealing with these four global challenges, as well as many crises in education, are in large part due to a failure to appreciate their complex interactions and effects, and of the need for sufficiently complex responses. The result is that many policies in many areas hinder rather than facilitate appropriate solutions.

However, by showing that the dynamics of crises in educational sustainability have many similarities to those of global systems, this book argues that the adoption of a number of core practices and values can help educational leaders develop greater sustainability, not only in their own area of activity but can also help them make a valuable contribution to greater sustainability at the global level as well.

About this title

Book Description:

The first book to show how current threats to leadership sustainability ultimately derive from sustainability challenges external to education. In so doing, it provides a new focus for educational leadership.

About the Author:

Mike Bottery is Professor of Education and Director of Research in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hull, UK. His books include Education, Policy and Ethics (2001) and The Challenges of Educational Leadership (2004).

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1472568265
• ISBN 13: 9781472568267
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224