Legal Frontiers in Education: Complex Law Issues for Leaders, Policymakers and Policy Implementers (Advances in Educational Administration, 24) - Hardcover

Anthony H. Normore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1785605771 ISBN 13: 9781785605772

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2015

Synopsis

This book examines issues in educational law and the way leaders, policymakers and policy implementers influence just processes and outcomes in schools. From the lens of professors, attorneys and administrators we explore how lessons learned from the authors' experiences and research might improve the preparation and practice of educational leaders. We examine how leaders can and should be conceived as advocates for justice, especially those with positional power and formal influence. Educational law has both conceptual and empirical qualities. While research on justice often begins with abstract conceptualizations, it is also manifest as tangible and observable activities and behaviours. Thus it follows that law can be studied through a variety of methodological approaches. Depending on the epistemological and/or methodological orientation of a study, justice may be a measurable or observed event, a purely theoretical construct, or a combination of both. Leaders must address questions about law and justice. Of equal importance is how to navigate complex legal issues and how to best engage in the decision-making processes while keeping the best interests of students at the fore.

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Review

Educators and legal specialists from the US provide 14 chapters on legal issues in education and implications for leaders, policy makers, and policy implementers. They address cyberbullying; special education law and bullying; the First Amendment and cyberbullying and cyberharassment; the rights of immigrant children; multilingual language learners; English learners; students with autism; community educational attainment, the Fourth Amendment, and student searches; inclusion of Native American languages; the McKinney-Vento Act and educational access and opportunity for homeless youth; school resource (police) officer programs; student speech; allocation of educational resources; and collective bargaining. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Annotation ©2016 Ringgold Inc. Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785605771
• ISBN 13: 9781785605772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 306
• Editor: Anthony H. Normore, Patricia A. L. Ehrensal, Patricia First