Leadership, Organisation and the Sustainability of Teacher Work : Towards a Processual View of Education.

Phil. Wood, Phil Wood, Aimee Quickfall, Matt Varley

ISBN 1836627181

1st ed.

publication

Leeds : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2026

1 online resource (201 pages)

Series membership

Transforming Education Through Critical Leadership, Policy and Practice Series · Transforming Education Through Critical Leadership, Policy and Practice Series

Online resource

Digital Resource · 1 library

Summary

By advocating a view of leadership, organisation and teacher work as complex, intertwined tangles of processes, Leadership, Organisation and the Sustainability of Teacher Workbegins to sketch out an alternative perspective for understanding educational organisations and how the work of teachers might be made sustainable.

Cover -- Leadership, Organisation and the Sustainability of Teacher Work -- TRANSFORMING EDUCATION THROUGH CRITICAL LEADERSHIP, POLICY AND PRACTICE -- Leadership, Organisation and the Sustainability of Teacher Work: Towards a Processual View of Education -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1. Introduction -- The Importance of Leaders -- Fostering a More Complex View of Educational Activity -- 1 - Leadership and Organisation -- 2. Contrasting Philosophies of the Leader: Exploring Plato and Foucault -- Plato and the Philosopher King -- Foucault and the Complexity of Power -- 3. Developing a Narrative Between Leadership and Organisation -- The Organisational Context of Leadership -- Narcissistic Leadership -- Servant Leadership -- Distributed Leadership -- 4. Leading Organisations: A Processually Complex View -- Process Philosophy, Organisation and Leadership -- Complexity, Organisation and Leadership -- 2 - Perspectives on Teacher Work -- 5. The Changing Nature of Teacher Work -- Introduction -- Reforming the English School System: Transforming Teacher Work -- Accountability and Datafication -- Teacher Autonomy -- Teacher Identity -- From the Professional to the Proletarian Teacher? -- 6. The Impact of Ethic of Care on Teacher Work -- What Is an Ethic of Care? -- Teacher Ethic of Care -- Ethic of Care and Teacher Well-Being -- Gender and Ethic of Care -- Leadership and Ethic of Care -- Final Reflections -- 7. Teacher Workload and Well-being -- Theories of Well-being -- Models of Well-being -- Theories of Workload -- Models of Workload -- Teacher Workload and Well-being Worldwide -- Teacher Workload and Well-being in England -- Fixing Workload and Well-being -- Conclusion -- 8. Professional Learning -- Introduction to Professional Learning -- Models of Professional Learning -- Evans' Component Model of PD., Clarke and Hollingsworth's Model of Professional Growth -- Education Scotland's National Model for Professional Learning -- Hargreaves and Fullan's Professional Capital Model -- Teacher Professional Learning Around the World -- England -- Finland -- Australia -- A Process View of Professional Learning -- 3 - Change and the Sustainability of Teacher Work -- 9. Organisational Change: Synthesising Leadership and Teacher Work -- Introduction -- Defining Change: A Processually Complex View -- Educational Change: An Analogy -- Planned and Emergent Change in Education -- Leading Change -- The Issues of Time, Hyper-change and Schrödinger's Innovation -- A Different Way of Thinking About Change: Normalisation Process Theory -- Final Reflections on Change -- 10. Leaders, Organisations and Making Teacher Work Sustainable -- Introduction -- What Is Not Working? -- Creating Sustainable Organisations -- The Role of Leaders and Leadership in Sustainable Organisations -- The Promotive Organisation: A Thought Experiment in Creating Sustainable Educational Organisations -- Some Final Reflections -- References -- Index.