Educational Leadership: Culture and Diversity

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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 Hull This 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 schools This book is essential reading for professionals and students of educational leadership and management, as well as administrators. Review: I recommend this book for all in educational leadership - The authors of the book discussed a vast range of educational leadership taking into consideration cultural diversity. They took global and international context into consideration by discussing issues that borders on educational leadership across the globe.. They took cultural impact on educational leadership, provided deeper analysis on theory and practice, competing perspective of cultural diversity in educational leadership and management. They stated their prepositions, targeted readership and structure and structure the book in a simple to read, understand and apply. They provided areas for future research for people for all who have interest in educational leadership. This makes the book an outstanding book for all who want to have deeper knowledge about educational leadership, develop and support educational development in the 21st century. I recommend this book for all in educational leadership. Review: Five Stars - Good