Part I Conceptualising and Contextualising Leadership 1. Clarifying and
Conceptualising Educational Leadership: Key challenges and contestable
issues 2. New perspectives on Educational Leadership as a Field of Theory
and Practice 3. The Appeal and Expectations of Leadership and the
Importance of Self-Efficacy 4. Leadership as Capacity Building: Designing
schools fit for purpose PART II Contemporary Leadership Themes 5.
Learning-centred Leadership 6. Leadership of Schools as 'research-engaged'
Professional Learning Communities 7. Distributed Leadership as Capacity
Building: possibilities, paradoxes and realities 8. Leadership Preparation
and Development as Capacity Building PART III Policy, Leadership Practice
and Impact 9. Specialist Schools and their Leadership: An international
comparison of England and Singapore 10. Transformational Leadership and
Organisational Change: Schooling as preparation for 21st century
knowledge-based economies 11. Leadership as Capacity Building: Traits and
dispositions, interpersonal skills, and context and culture - all matter
