{"product_id":"passionate-principalship-1","title":"Passionate Principalship","description":"This book puts 'real life' back into the literature on school principalship. Through a life history approach, it portrays daily life in schools as a much more messy, contested and precarious existence, where principals struggle with passionate commitment to find continuity amongst frequently changing and often conflicting policy initiatives.\nThe book draws on comprehensively in-depth interview data with new, experienced and veteran principals. Their life stories illustrate the struggles involved in the ongoing negotiation of identities through unprecedented change. The authors lucidly argue that:\n* The realities of principals' lives are much more demanding that rational linear approaches to reform suggest;\n* A revolving door approach to the appointment of principals is inadequate\n* Passion is central to the lives and work of principals, but this passion needs to be rejuvenated and rekindled through opportunities for learning\n* There is a need for further research on the relationship between the lifecycles of principals, the leadership legacies of school communities and the cycles of mandated reforms as a means of lending coherence to leadership learning and sustained and renewed leaders.\nThis is essential reading for principals and their professional bodies, academics and researchers, school leaders on leadership courses internationally.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54257474371928,"sku":"9780415577403","price":59.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415577403.jpg?v=1769829316","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/passionate-principalship-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}