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Leadership for School Transformation
Action, Practices and Context
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Drawing on extensive research and their experience of more than 100 partnerships with educational leaders across early childhood, school, and tertiary settings, Jefferson and Anderson present a praxis-driven exploration of transformational leadership. This book delves into how educators can move beyond conventional approaches to foster sustainable...
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Considers how educators can achieve sustainable and authentic beneficial transformational leadership through a foundation built on creativity, collaboration, communication and critical reflection.
Considers how educators can achieve sustainable and authentic beneficial transformational leadership through a foundation built on creativity, collaboration, communication and critical reflection.
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Drawing on extensive research and their experience of more than 100 partnerships with educational leaders across early childhood, school, and tertiary settings, Jefferson and Anderson present a praxis-driven exploration of transformational leadership.
This book delves into how educators can move beyond conventional approaches to foster sustainable and wise change, rejecting the allure of quick fixes for deeper, more meaningful shifts. It explains how creativity, critical reflection, communication, and collaboration (the 4Cs) power transformation, and how values and context serve as essential structural pillars providing ethical direction and ensuring leadership is responsive to each school's unique environment.
The book directly addresses the crucial question: how can leaders become transformative leaders? It illuminates how the 4Cs foster both courageous individual leadership and leadership-as-practice. Readers are provided with a map for developing transformative leadership communities through unique frameworks, practices, and calls to action.
By exploring elements like learning, values, and inquiry, Leadership for School Transformation offers not only the 'why' but, crucially, the 'how' to lead profound, joyful, and motivational transformation in schools.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781350331440
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 17 September 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Illustration: 0-30 bw illus
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 169.0mm
Height: 244.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 264
About the Author
Miranda Jefferson is co-founder and innovative practice leader of 4C Organizations and 4C Transformative Learning. She has been involved in leading innovation in organizations and schools for over 20 years. Miranda works with leadership and organizations to facilitate transformation that is responsive to the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.
Michael Anderson is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research and teaching focuses on how leaders and organizations can transform through deep and direct engagement with creativity, critical reflection, collaboration and communication. Michael has designed and delivers MBA and EMBA and Interdisciplinary Education programs in creativity and critical communication and presents international keynotes in these areas. Michael is co-founder and academic leader of 4C Organizations and 4C Transformative Learning.
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