Educational Leadership and management
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Title: Effective leaders make people feel that even the most difficult problems can be tackled productively.
(Fullan, 2004, p6) In what ways is this true in relation to change management?
In the assignment need to consider the following:
• Different views of change management
• What changes in a school and why?
• What makes for successful change in a school?
• Does managing change require certain leadership qualities?
• Your own experiences of change and managing change
• Links with strategic thinking
Very important i have examples of how i may have personally implemented change
Some further resources to help and need to use some:
• Thien, L M (2019), Distributive Leadership Functions, Readiness for Change, and Teachers’ Affective Commitment to Change: A Partial Least Squares Analysis, SAGE Open, April-June 2019: pp1–15
• Yılmaz, D and Kılıçoğlu. G (2013), Resistance to change and ways of reducing resistance in educational organizations, European Journal of Research on Education, Vol. 1(1), pp14-21
• Dix, P (2017), When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic shifts in school behaviour, Camarthen, Crown House Publishing
• Fullan, M (2004), Leading in a Culture of Change, San Francisco, Jossey Bass
• Kotter, J (2012), Leading Change, Boston, Harvard Business Review Press
• Earley, P and Greany, T (2017), School Leadership and Education System Reform, London, Bloomsbury
• Ryan, W (2018) Dare to be different, Carmarthen, Crown House Publishing
• Ball, S (2017), The Education Debate (Policy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century), Bristol, Policy Press
• Brown, B (2018), Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts, London, Vermillon
• Earley, P and Greany, T (2017), School Leadership and Education System Reform, London, Bloomsbury
• Kolb, D. A. (2014), Experiential learning: experience as the source of learning and development, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall.
• Schön, D.A. (1991) The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action, New York, Routledge
• Thompson, S and Thompson, N (2018), The Critically Reflective Practitioner, London, Palgrave MacMillan
• Ball, S. J. (2011), How Schools Do Policy, Abingdon, Routledge
• Bowe, R (2018), Reforming Education and Changing Schools (Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education), London, Routledge
• Dunn, H (2018) The School Business Manager’s Handbook, Woodbridge, John Catt Educational Ltd
• Harvard Business Review (2019), HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically, Boston, Harvard Business Review Press
• Preedy, M, Bennet, N, and Wise, C (2011), Educational Leadership: Context, Strategy and Collaboration, Milton Keynes, Open University Press
