Clive Dimmock is Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Education in Singapore and Professor Emeritus at the University of Leicester, UK.

• 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

Clive Dimmock is Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Education in Singapore and Professor Emeritus at the University of Leicester, UK.

• 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

Clive Dimmock is Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Education in Singapore and Professor Emeritus at the University of Leicester, UK.

• 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