Distributed School Leadership

Developing Tomorrow's Leaders

By Alma Harris

Tomorrow’s schools will need new forms of leadership. The old hierarchical models of leadership simply do not fit any longer. We need to develop new...

Published July 30th 2008 by Routledge.

Connecting Leadership and Learning

Principles for Practice

Edited by John MacBeath, Neil Dempster

Leading schools is becoming almost daily a more complex and demanding job. Connecting Leadership and Learning reassesses the purpose of schools, the nature of learning...

Published July 25th 2008 by Routledge.

Engaging Pupil Voice to Ensure that Every Child Matters

A practical guide

By Rita Cheminais

Pupil voice is at the heart of Every Child Matters and is the driving force in acknowledging the rights, voice and choice of children and...

Published July 18th 2008 by David Fulton Publis.

Improving Schools and Educational Systems

International Perspectives

Edited by Alma Harris, Janet Hageman Chrispeels

School improvement has become a dominant feature of educational reform in many countries. The pressure upon schools to improve performance has resulted in a wide-range...

Published July 17th 2008 by Routledge.

Distributed Leadership According to the Evidence

By Kenneth Leithwood, Blair Mascall, Tiiu Strauss

Although not new, the concept of distributed (shared) leadership has re-emerged in recent years as one highly promising response to the complex challenges currently faced...

Published July 10th 2008 by Routledge.

Reforming Child Protection

By Bob Lonne, Nigel Parton, Jane Thomson, Maria Harries

Child protection is one of the most high profile and challenging areas of social work, as well as one where children’s lives and family life...

Published July 9th 2008 by Routledge.

A Guide to School Attendance

By Ben Whitney

Improving school attendance remains a contentious topic and is a high priority for the DCFS, local authorities and schools. Thousands of sessions are missed every...

Published June 16th 2008 by David Fulton Publis.

The Methodological Dilemma

Creative, critical and collaborative approaches to qualitative research

Edited by Kathleen Gallagher

This thought-provoking book challenges the way research is planned and undertaken and equips researchers with a variety of creative and imaginative solutions to the dilemmas...

Published May 19th 2008 by Routledge.

Cyber-Bullying

Issues and solutions for the school, the classroom and the home

By Shaheen Shariff

This book looks in depth at the emerging issue of cyber-bullying. In this increasingly digital world cyber-bullying has emerged as an electronic form of bullying...

Published March 26th 2008 by Routledge.

Don’t Touch!

The Educational Story of a Panic

By Heather Piper, Ian Stronach

This is the first book in the UK to explore the problems involved in ‘touching’ children in an educational environment. The book uses real-life examples...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.