Educational Leadership and Reform: A New Paradigm

Author: Zheng Yanxiang
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Education is a cause of life growth and the foundation of social development and national prosperity. Against the backdrop of globalization, information technology, and the knowledge economy, the transformation of education, its domains, and its management have become crucial issues, impacting the future of countless young people and society as a whole. Embracing the challenges of globalization, educational reform is inevitable and has become an international trend today. Based on recent research findings, this book aims to bring fresh concepts and paradigms to the development and practice of contemporary educational reform and leadership management, helping educators, researchers, and policymakers understand and address current challenges in order to create a brighter future for education in the new century.
The first part of this book explores the new trends in educational development and reform, proposes new paradigms and comprehensive analytical frameworks, and provides an overview of educational trends across the Asia-Pacific region, offering insights for educational reform in the new century. The second part focuses on educational leadership in times of profound change, proposing new concepts to foster effective practice. Topics include distributed leadership, transformational leadership, strategic leadership, action learning leadership, and related empirical research. The third part delves into new perspectives on school effectiveness and school management, covering concepts of effectiveness, the role of effectiveness in management and research, the influence of organizational culture, systems for monitoring and evaluating educational quality, school crisis management, and the principles and practices of home-school collaboration.
The content of this book offers comprehensive and innovative reference value for educational reform, policy-making, educational practice, school management, teacher development, and related research.