The Landscape of Leadership Preparation
Reframing the Education of School Administrators
- Joseph Murphy - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
October 1992 | 240 pages | Corwin
In this book, the author offers a new vision of the purpose of leadership preparation programmes, and a series of principles to guide the development of the knowledge base, instructional strategies and structures in defining future programmes.
The design presented is based on: lessons learned from an extensive review of training programmes over the last 100 years; an in-depth investigation into the problems currently plaguing preparation programmes, and an examination of the important changes likely to shape the future of education and educational leadership.
Charting the Path
PART ONE: THE PAST
The Ideological and Prescriptive Eras
The Behavioral Science and Dialectic Eras
PART TWO: THE CURRENT SCENE
The Current Scene
PART THREE: THE FUTURE
A New Vision of Education and Leadership
Preparing Leaders for Tomorrow's Schools