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Description of  Sustainable School Leadership: Portraits of Individuality

We live in a complex age, with multiple challenges to the practice of educational leadership, and where there is widespread evidence of individuals wanting to retire early from leadership positions, and of fewer wishing to take up the role. This highly experienced team of cross-cultural researchers combine scholarly research with over a decade of extensive empirical research using an innovative 'portrait' methodology to investigate the challenges that educational leaders on two continents currently face. The kinds of challenges described include: the personal (e.g. being new to the job, coping with the role, approaching retirement) the inter-personal (e.g. power relations, personal challenges with staff, parents and children) the local (e.g. issues faced by the school in the community) the national (e.g. government initiatives, inspection) the global (e.g. the impact of economic forces on political and institutional management). Read more