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Serving Community: Prosocial Engagement in Educational Administration

Teaching Leaders to Lead Teachers

ISBN: 978-0-7623-1461-4, eISBN: 978-1-84950-512-3

Publication date: 20 October 2007

Abstract

The rise of managerialism in the 1990s entrenched bureaucratic practices as core education and training for educational administrators. As the educational divide between those who achieve and those who fall short continues to problematize the success of educational reforms, the work of administrators becomes critical to review. The current challenge for educational administration is to provide an environment that genuinely serves the interests of complex diversity and social justice in education systems by building the frameworks that respects differences, protects the weak, and regulates the strong. By taking a more prosocial stance with issues relating to cultural diversity, equity, and democracy, educational administration can transform society, the school, and the classroom, through humanistic and interpretive management practices, and influencing pedagogy, curriculum, educator training, and the socio-political system.

Citation

Jaques, E.-J. and Vongalis-Macrow, A. (2007), "Serving Community: Prosocial Engagement in Educational Administration", Donahoo, S. and Hunter, R.C. (Ed.) Teaching Leaders to Lead Teachers (Advances in Educational Administration, Vol. 10), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 299-311. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3660(07)10018-4

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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