Reshaping the Principalship

Joseph Murphy - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Karen Seashore Louis

March 1994 | 312 pages | Corwin

Understand the dynamics of change and the uniquely evolving role principals play in school reform.

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PART ONE: SETTING THE STAGE

Joseph Murphy and Lynn G Beck

Reconstructing the Principalship

Challenges and Possibilities

Joseph Murphy

Transformational Change and the Evolving Role of the Principal

Early Empirical Evidence

PART TWO: CASE STUDIES

R Bruce McPherson and Robert L Crowson

The Principal as Mini-Superintendent Under Chicago School Reform

Kenneth Leithwood, Doris Jantzi and Alicia Fernandez

Transformational Leadership and Teachers' Commitment to Change

Sheila Rosenblum, Karen Seashore Louis and Richard A Rossmiller

School Leadership and Teacher Quality of Work Life in Restructuring Schools

Nona A Prestine

Ninety Degrees from Everywhere

New Understandings of the Principal's Role in a Restructuring Essential School

Philip Hallinger and Charles Hausman

From Attila the Hun to Mary Had a Little Lamb

Principal Role Ambiguity in Restructured Schools

Lynn G Beck

Cultivating a Caring School Community

One Principal's Story

Carl D Glickman, Lewis R Allen and Barbara F Lunsford

Voices of Principals from Democratically Transformed Schools

Kent D Peterson and Valli D Warren

Changes in School Governance and Principals' Roles

Changing Jurisdictions, New Power Dynamics, and Conflict in Restructured Schools

David T Conley and Paul Goldman

Ten Propositions for Facilitative Leadership

PART THREE: CONCLUSION

Karen Seashore Louis and Joseph Murphy

The Evolving Role of the Principal

Some Concluding Thoughts

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