Teacher Leadership and Professional Development

<p>Interest in and knowledge of leadership and learning separately and together is an international and continuing phenomenon. This book adds to a somewhat under-researched aspect of the field. It focuses both on a particular form of leadership - teacher leadership and on a particular form of learning - professional development. It considers the connection between teacher leadership and professional development and the first chapter relates this connection to a 'Leadership for Learning' conceptual framework developed through an international three-year project. </p><p>The book's chapters explore teacher leadership and professional development from a number of perspectives giving rise to three points of particular significance. Firstly the chapters show that either by accident or design there is a growing cadre of teacher leaders emerging from a multitude of professional development activities and initiatives. Secondly a number of new conceptual frameworks are put forward alongside the adaption and development of extant ones that add to the ever-increasing theorisation of educational leadership and professional development literature. Thirdly the chapters provide evidence of the connections between leadership and learning as conceptualised in the 'Leadership for Learning' framework.</p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Professional Development in Education.</i></p>