Evidence Informed Leadership in Education

Alison Taysum is Postgraduate Tutor for the EdD, and leads the EdD and MSc Educational Leadership (School Business Management) at the University of Leicester, UK.

'This book is far more than a philosophical defence of a different mode of thinking about leadership. It is soundly rooted in practice itself and, true to its general message, in the author's own self knowledge. There is a wealth of examples through the case studies.' Richard Pring, Lead Director of the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training and Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford University, UK 'Insightful guidance for educational leaders seeking to transform the narrow dictates of national policy directives into opportunities for ethical, collaborative, self-aware, community-engaged approaches to teaching and learning...she demonstrates that social justice commitments can open possibilities even in highly constrained contexts and offers important lessons for leaders across the professions meeting basic human needs in education, health, and social welfare.' Ronald David Glass, Associate Professor of Education, University of California, USA

• Foreword by Richard Pring \ 1. Evidence Informed Leadership: Why bother? \ 2. Policy and Evidence Informed Leadership: Every Child Matters and No Child Left Behind in focus \ 3. Tools to Facilitate Evidence Informed Leadership \ 4. Moving Towards Shared Understandings in Complex Educational Settings \ 5. Confronting Taken-for-Granted Ways of Thinking and Doing that Limit Change \ 6. Ethical Frameworks for Developing Evidence Informed Leadership: Guarding against false and dangerous promises \ 7. Practical Cases Where Evidence Informed Leadership Enhanced Educational Opportunities Whilst Meeting the Social Justice Agenda of Educational Policies \ 8. Evidence Informed Leadership Takes Time Because it Matters \ Index