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`Clive Dimmock and Allan Walker's books is a valuable addition to the overcrowded literature on leadership. This is a useful and important book because citizenship, globalization and the tensions with nationality should be the concern of all who lead any school; even monofaith, monoethic and monolingual schools' - Tim Brighouse, TES Friday 'The authors offer a rigorous and systematic analysis based on careful definition, illustration and discussion which demonstrates the importance of understanding culture, leadership and their interaction in different contexts: in doing so they provide a powerful antidote to the simplistic export of ideas and lay foundations for a more sophisticated conceptual framework for the study of educational leadership' - John West-Burnham, International Leadership Centre, University of HullThis key text in educational leadership focuses on the significance of the context and culture of schools. The book addresses the growing recognition of cultural differences between societies and the resultant differences in schooling. It also deals with vital issues relating to multicultural education and the leadership of multicultural schools. Drawing on their first-hand experience, the authors explore the differences evident in classroom teaching and learning, as well as organizational, leadership and management aspects of schools. They show how such differences can make over-reliance on Anglo-American approaches misleading, ineffective and restrictive.Key features of the book include:- a methodology to support the emerging field of international and comparative educational leadership and management - in-depth comparative analysis of Anglo-American and Asian schooling and educational management- the leadership of multi-cultural schoolsThis book is essential reading for professionals and students of educational leadership and management, as well as administrators.
Leadership of Culturally Diverse Schools
Leadership of Culturally Diverse Schools
This chapter explores the leadership of culturally diverse schools. It adopts a broad view, first explaining the growth of multi-ethnic schools, and the development of multicultural education. The perspective adopted is that successful leadership of culturally diverse schools is predicated on providing an authentic multicultural education and curriculum. Accordingly, the chapter explores various connotations of multicultural education. It then draws out some key implications for school leaders in building and sustaining schools of diversity that provide genuine multicultural curricula. The chapter concludes with some implications for the training and development of school leaders in culturally diverse settings.
Background to Multicultural Education
A major justification for adopting a cross-cultural approach to educational leadership is the creation of a broader ...
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