Reshaping the Principalship: Insights From Transformational Reform Efforts - Tapa blanda

Reseña del editor

How the work of principals is being shaped by transformational reform measures is examined in this book. It aims to enrich our understanding of how restructuring has redesigned the work of principals, as well as the ways in which principals themselves are helping to shape and direct reform initiatives. Part I reviews the empirical evidence available at the start of the project and analyzes the challenges and possiblities for principals in restructuring schools. In Part II, nine case studies developed and presented by well-known researchers examine the changing role of the principal in the context of a single improvement effort. The editors then review and analyze the cases in Part II, with special attention to the overall themes and dilemmas.

Biografía del autor

Joseph F. Murphy is the Frank W. Mayborn Chair and associate dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The Ohio State University, where he was the William Ray Flesher Professor of Education.

In the public schools, he has served as an administrator at the school, district, and state levels, including an appointment as the executive assistant to the chief deputy superintendent of public instruction in California. His most recent appointment was as the founding president of the Ohio Principals Leadership Academy. At the university level, he has served as department chair and associate dean.

He is past vice president of the American Educational Research Association and was the founding chair of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). He is co-editor of the AERA Handbook on Educational Administration (1999) and editor of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) yearbook, The Educational Leadership Challenge (2002).

His work is in the area of school improvement, with special emphasis on leadership and policy. He has authored or co-authored 18 books in this area and edited another 12. His most recent authored volumes include Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement (2002), Leadership for Literacy: Research-Based Practice, PreK-3 (2003), Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement (2005), Preparing School Leaders: Defining a Research and Action Agenda (2006), and Turning Around Failing Schools: Lessons From the Organizational Sciences.