Anatomy of professional practice : promising research perspectives on educational leadership / Fenwick W. English.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: English, Fenwick W.
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Education, [2008], ©2008.
Subjects:
Teachers > Professional relationships > United States.
Educational leadership > United States.
Education > Research > United States.
Postmodernism and education > United States.
Physical Description:vii, 98 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : why an anatomy?
  • Compassion is different from caring
  • Dewey's differentiation
  • One view of the historical moment in educational leadership
  • The Pasteur problem
  • Contested notions of "correct science"
  • An anatomy of professional practice
  • Exploring cognitive aesthetics and the zone of transference
  • Leadership as drama, theater, and performance
  • Aesthetics, morals, and evil in leadership
  • Summing up
  • Appendix.