{"product_id":"passionate-principalship","title":"Passionate Principalship","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book puts 'real life' back into the literature on school principalship. Through a life history approach, it portrays daily life in schools as a much more messy, contested and precarious existence, where principals struggle with passionate commitment to find continuity amongst frequently changing and often conflicting policy initiatives.\u003cbr\u003eThe book draws on comprehensively in-depth interview data with new, experienced and veteran principals. Their life stories illustrate the struggles involved in the ongoing negotiation of identities through unprecedented change. The authors lucidly argue that:\u003cbr\u003e* The realities of principals' lives are much more demanding that rational linear approaches to reform suggest;\u003cbr\u003e* A revolving door approach to the appointment of principals is inadequate\u003cbr\u003e* Passion is central to the lives and work of principals, but this passion needs to be rejuvenated and rekindled through opportunities for learning\u003cbr\u003e* There is a need for further research on the relationship between the lifecycles of principals, the leadership legacies of school communities and the cycles of mandated reforms as a means of lending coherence to leadership learning and sustained and renewed leaders.\u003cbr\u003eThis is essential reading for principals and their professional bodies, academics and researchers, school leaders on leadership courses internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45542834012398,"sku":"9780415577403","price":72.79,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780415577403.jpg?v=1720135844","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/passionate-principalship","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}