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Understanding Educational Complexity - Brad Kershner

Understanding Educational Complexity

Integrating Practices and Perspectives for 21st Century Leadership

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
200 Seiten
2020
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-44784-4 (ISBN)
CHF 49,90 inkl. MwSt
Understanding Educational Complexity presents in-depth case studies to explore the interdependence of educational research, practice, and policy, and offers frameworks for understanding how the intractable dilemmas of education reflect and embody the social, cultural, and developmental patterns of society.
In the Jim Rutt Show, Brad Kershner talks about this book. He also had an interview with Layman Pascal about it in the Integral Stage Authors Series.



Our ability to understand and improve the field of education depends upon our ability to understand human development, culture, and society. We cannot understand what is happening in schools unless we understand the context in which schools exist. Through meaningful stories of school leadership and critical reflections on theories of complex systems, this book offers a framework for understanding how the intractable dilemmas of education reflect and embody the social, cultural, and developmental patterns of society. From the concrete dilemmas of school leadership to the abstract vistas of integral meta-theory, this book is a guide to understanding how it all fits together, and how to encourage the holistic growth of students, teachers, leaders, and educational systems.

Brad Kershner, Ph.D. (2018), Boston College, is a school leader and independent scholar. His research, teaching, and writing cover a wide range of interdependent topics, including education, leadership, parenting, race, technology, metamodernism, integral theory, meditation, complexity, and developmental psychology. Some of his public lectures are available on YouTube (Dr. Brad Kershner). You can learn more about his work and access recordings of his guided meditations on Patreon (www.patreon.com/bradkershner).

Preface

List of Figures



1 The Complexity of Everything

 1 Two Schools, Two Principals, Myriad Challenges

 2 Wicked Complexity and Integral Theory



2 Complexity Leadership

 1 Distributed Leadership

 2 The Complex Systems View



3 Jeffrey Jackson School: Repetitive Reform and the Slow Process of Adaptive Change

 1 Culture, Climate, and Collaboration

 2 Distributed Leadership: Consistency and Structured Collaboration

 3 Instructional Leadership: Principal Presence in the Classroom

 4 Reform Is in the Eye of the Beholder



4 Saint Catherine’s School: Collective Urgency at the Edge of Chaos

 1 DREAM BIG: Creating a Common School Culture

 2 Distributed Leadership: Creating Structures for Organizational Learning

 3 Instructional Leadership: Challenging and Supporting Teachers

 4 Guiding Emergence through Challenge, Support, and Balance

 5 Case Study Summary: Contextualizing Processes and Outcomes



5 Perpetual Learning in an Integral Ecology

 1 Post-Postmodern Pluralism: Integrating Perspectives on Leadership and Change

 2 Subjective Realities: Understanding the Spectrum of Perspectives

 3 Social Realities: Surfacing System Infrastructures and Ideological Influences



6 Methodological Hindsight: Reflections on Systems Thinking, Integral Theory, and Educational Research

 1 Fostering and Assessing Development in Complex Systems

 2 Plea for a Post-Postmodern Paradigm of Practice

 3 Positionality as a Kosmic Address



Postscript: Phronetic Social Science and Methodological Metacognition



References

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Educational Leadership and Leaders in Contexts ; 6
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 348 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10 90-04-44784-9 / 9004447849
ISBN-13 978-90-04-44784-4 / 9789004447844
Zustand Neuware
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