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This book provides detailed insights on the training and development for Pacific Island school leaders. It draws extensively on original empirical research that explores school leaders’ perceptions of how leadership and management training impacted their professional practices, and how these practices in turn impacted the dynamics of school operations. This book addresses a critical need to understand how to support leadership development for all Pacific schools, but especially in schools that are faced with the increasing challenges of learning and teaching conditions. In small island developing states in the Pacific region, school leaders face a myriad of challenges due to limited human and material resources, and a fragile economic base. Written by Pacific Islander authors, this book provides insights from different countries in the Pacific Islands. It shows how contextual challenges can exert enormous pressure on school leaders who are leading and managing schools without any leadership preparation. Given the importance of effective leadership practices and its impact on student learning outcomes, this book aims to be a source of reference for practitioners and educational authorities who have a vested interest in the provision of quality education in the Pacific region and beyond.

Curriculum development --- Teaching --- onderwijs --- opvoeding --- curriculumontwikkeling --- Education --- Curriculum Studies. --- Lideratge en l'educació --- Curricula. --- Pacífic (Regió)

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This book analyses how growing managerialism and the marketisation of higher education has undermined educational standards and pedagogical integrity. Specifically, it provides a thorough critique of how the pandemic, and the move to online learning and MOOCs, has reinforced these developments. The book outlines the limits of new managerialism, which is replacing critical mass with a culture of compliance in higher education. Employing an ethnographic approach, the book explores the impact of the sudden shift in teaching delivery from in-person to online. For example, it examines the changing role of the PhD supervisor during the pandemic, and the impact on students’ willingness to engage and their (in)visibility in the classroom, and further considers how these impact class interactions, social relationships and learning. Ultimately, this book argues that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the limits of marketisation of education and revealed the distorted managerial response to a crisis. Prof. Bhabani Shankar Nayak is Professor of Business Management and Programme Director of Strategic Business and Management at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. He is a political economist and the author of Political Economy of Gender and Development in Africa (2023), Creative Business Education (2022), Political Economy of Development and Business (2022), Modern Corporations and Strategies at Work (2022), China: The Bankable State (2021), all published by Palgrave Macmillan. Dr Katherine Appleford is a Senior Lecturer in Consumer Behaviour at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. Her research bridges Sociology, Cultural Studies, Human Geography and Fashion Theory. More recently her work has considered young women’s shifting attitudes around body image and beauty ideals, and the role of celebrity and social media in cultivating new body image standards.

Didactics of economy --- Higher education --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- management --- Executives --- Education, Higher. --- Management Education. --- Higher Education. --- Training of. --- Educació superior --- Administració --- Lideratge en l'educació

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This book presents, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the Reflective Goal Setting model, its theoretical framework and origins, and its practical applications for personal development, improved coping and reduced stress, academic growth and performance and leadership. Divided into three parts, the author begins by examining the particular importance of personal development, and in particular soft and interpersonal skills development. It addresses the limitations of current personal development and leadership education and training for the transfer of learning, before outlining how Reflective Goal Setting fulfils this need. It presents a critical review of Goal Setting Theory and approaches to reflective practice that demonstrates how the Reflective Goal Setting model was developed from, and builds upon, these earlier approaches. Drawing on original research and illustrative case studies, the author details the cyclical five step process of the Reflective Goal Setting model across 5 chapters - forming Part 2 of the book. Part 3 examines the practical applications and impact of using Reflective Goal Setting, employing illustrative case studies from a variety of settings including higher education, professional development and executive education. This innovative work will provide a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in Organisational and Industrial Psychology, Education, and Business and Management and indeed anyone who wants to work on their own personal development. Cheryl J. Travers is Senior Lecturer in the Work and Organisation research group within the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests and publications include occupational stress, management of change, diary methods and the development of her Reflective Goal Setting model for personal development and the transfer of learning. She has extensive experience with corporate clients, as well as university students, and has designed and delivered management, leadership and team development programmes for the public and private sector, in addition to delivering numerous keynote lectures and two TEDx talks.

Developmental psychology --- Personality development --- Personnel management --- Business management --- management --- ontwikkelingspsychologie --- coaching --- HRM (human resource management) --- persoonlijkheidsontwikkeling --- Psychology, Industrial. --- Maturation (Psychology). --- Management. --- Personnel management. --- Work and Organizational Psychology. --- Personal Development. --- Human Resource Management. --- Lideratge --- Desenvolupament professional --- Maduresa (Psicologia) --- Èxit en els negocis --- Maturation (Psychology) --- Lideratge.

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This book offers a richly observed study of three principals working in some of the most disadvantaged primary schools in Victoria, Australia. It explores their social justice understandings and practices in working to improve the educational outcomes for children in their schools, through autobiography, biographical interviews, in-depth interviews and observations. The work looks into their life histories, the formation of their primary and secondary habitus, and uncovers and examines their encounters with the public education field. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice and his ‘thinking tools’, the book investigates how the principals’ understandings of social justice are shaped by the intersection of their life and work histories. This book is of interest to educational leadership scholars interested in the application of critical theory to studies of leadership. The book provides an exemplar for the application of Bourdieu’s theory of practice, and it makes a strong contribution to Bourdieusian scholarship, social justice scholarship and educational leadership scholarship.

Philosophy --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of education --- School management --- Teaching --- Educational sciences --- onderwijsfilosofie --- onderwijs --- onderwijssociologie --- Lideratge en l'educació --- Victòria --- School management and organization. --- Educational sociology. --- Education --- Organization and Leadership. --- Sociology of Education. --- Educational Philosophy. --- Philosophy.

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This book presents changes in UK and global educational governance in the context of a radical shift in the operating logics of politics and its interaction with education. Beginning from the colonial origins of political interest in education, the author traces a fundamental shift in the patterns of governance of schools in England in the opening decades of the 21st century. Operating through the logics of public choice economics involving both real markets and quasi-markets, policy reforms have increasingly framed school values, and the value of schooling, in line with a politically determined and nostalgic discourse of ‘British values’. This stands in contrast to a previous focus on ‘community cohesion’ which foregrounded school partnership with the parent community and wider society. Tracing the processes and mid-level actors mediating between government and school leaders, the author identifies processes of recontextualisation through which policy can be reinscribed and resisted.

Sociology of education --- Curriculum development --- School management --- Teaching --- Educational sciences --- onderwijs --- onderwijssociologie --- opvoeding --- curriculumontwikkeling --- Education. --- School management and organization. --- School administration. --- Education --- Educational sociology. --- Education and state. --- Organization and Leadership. --- Curriculum Studies. --- Sociology of Education. --- Education Policy. --- Curricula. --- Gran Bretanya --- Política educativa --- Lideratge en l'educació