The Principles of Educational Leadership and Management

Fully revised and thoroughly updated, this second edition of this classic book brings together many leading international authors on educational leadership, with new chapters from leaders in the field, including Ken Leithwood, Paul Begley, Allan Walker and Alma Harris.

Providing an overview of essential topics within the field, this book adopts an international perspective and offers conceptual and empirical insights into:

Leadership and student outcomes

Moral and ethical leadership

Distributed leadership

Developing leaders

Leadership for learning

Building and leading learning cultures

Managing human and financial resources

Leadership for diversity

Leadership, partnerships and community

Professionalism and professional development.

The book is for scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in educational leadership, management and administration, as well as for senior leaders in education and those taking professional leadership qualifications.