The Landscape of Leadership Preparation

How do we prepare leaders with the ability to turn our schools into educational success stories? The book reveals the characteristics an educational leader must develop to meet the needs of students and schools and provides an innovative design for transforming preparation programmes to educate leaders for tomorrow. In this book the author offers a new vision of the purpose of 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 century; on 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.This excellent resource should be read by anyone teaching or taking courses in leadership and by those involved in staff development at all levels.