Systems Thinking for School Leaders Holistic Leadership for Excellence in Education 1st Edition by Haim Shaked, Chen Schechter ISBN 3319851861 978-3319851860

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ISBN 10: 3319851861 

ISBN 13: 978-3319851860

Author: Haim Shaked, Chen Schechter

This book presents a new approach to school leadership – Holistic School Leadership, whereby school leaders lead schools through systems-thinking concepts and procedures. Facing growing complexity, change and diversity, school leaders need to regularly apply the systems view and perform at the systems level. This book proposes a holistic approach, providing school leaders with systemic principles of action for excellence in education.

“What a wonderful book – once I started it, I couldn’t put it down. The book masterfully makes a systems leadership perspective accessible and grounded in the reality of the daily life of educators. Holistic School Leadership is a “must read” for anyone who has the responsibility for making schools better places, from professors to emerging teacher leaders.”

Table of contents: 

Part I: The Environmental and Empirical Backdrop to Developing an Enhanced Systemic Leadership Approach

1. The Need for Holistic School Leadership

1.1 Contemporary Challenges for School Leaders

1.2 The Need for Holistic School Leadership Approach

2. Definitions and Development of Systems Thinking

2.1 Definition of Systems Thinking

2.2 Systems Thinking Versus Reductionism

2.2.1 Reductionist Paradigms for Systems

2.2.2 Holistic Paradigm for Systems

2.3 Systems Thinking as a Method for Scientific Investigation

2.4 Applied Systems Thinking

2.5 Practical Uses of Systems Thinking

2.6 Conclusion

3. Systems Thinking Methodologies

3.1 System Dynamics

3.1.1 System Dynamics in the Learning Organization

3.1.2 Implications of System Dynamics for School Leadership

3.2 Management Cybernetics

3.2.1 Implications of Management Cybernetics for School Leadership

3.3 Complexity Strategy

3.3.1 Implications of Complexity Strategy for School Leadership

3.4 Soft Systems Methodology

3.4.1 Implications of Soft Systems Methodology for School Leadership

3.5 Conclusion

4. Existing Research on Systems Thinking in School Leadership

4.1 Studies on Implementing Systems Thinking in School Leadership

4.2 Books About Implementing Systems Thinking in School Leadership

4.3 Conclusion

Part II: The Holistic School Leadership Approach and Guidelines for Its Implementation

5. Holistic School Leadership

5.1 Our Proposed Holistic School Leadership Approach

5.2 Holistic School Leadership and Prevalent Perception of Systems Thinking in School Leadership

5.3 Conclusion

6. Characteristics of Holistic School Leadership

6.1 Existing Research on the Characteristics of Systems Thinking in General

6.2 Our Proposed Four Core Characteristics of Holistic School Leadership

6.2.1 Leading Wholes

6.2.2 Adopting a Multidimensional View

6.2.3 Influencing Indirectly

6.2.4 Evaluating Significance

6.3 Conclusion

7. Sources of Holistic School Leadership

7.1 Existing Research on the Sources of Systems Thinking in General

7.2 Our Proposed Four Sources of Holistic School Leadership

7.2.1 Managerial Experience

7.2.2 Role Model

7.2.3 Academic Study

7.2.4 Natural Tendency

7.3 Conclusion

8. The Developmental Process of Holistic School Leadership

8.1 Existing Research on School Leaders’ Professional Career Stages

8.2 Our Proposed Five Career Stages of Holistic School Leadership Development

8.2.1 Stage 1: The Preservice Stage—Expansion of View

8.2.2 Stage 2: The Survival Stage—Slowdown

8.2.3 Stage 3: The Consolidation Stage—Gradual Development

8.2.4 Stage 4: Later Years—Role Maturity

8.2.5 Stage 5: Possible Decline

8.3 Conclusion

9. Holistic School Leadership as an Educational Leadership Framework

9.1 Holistic School Leadership Among Mid-Level School Leaders

9.2 Holistic School Leadership in Principal Preparation Programs

9.3 Holistic School Leadership in Selecting School Principals

9.4 Holistic School Leadership Among Beginning School Principals

9.5 Holistic School Leadership as Lifelong Learning

9.6 Strategies for Developing Holistic School Leadership

9.7 Conclusion

10. Holistic School Leadership in Action

10.1 Action Principles for Leading Wholes

10.2 Action Principles for Adopting a Multidimensional View

10.3 Action Principles for Influencing Indirectly

10.4 Action Principles for Evaluating Significance

10.5 Action Principles for Self-development of Holistic School Leadership Over the Principal’s Career

10.6 Conclusion

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