Power of Responsive Educational Leadership

Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz, sociologist, teacher, and researcher, works at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. He has had a chance to experience and reflect on the educational system from different positions: student, teacher, academic, consultant, and project coordinator. He believes that education can change a world.John M. Fischer, a Professor in Social Studies Education at Bowling Green, has served as the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. His work and research seek to investigate and improve issues around education reform with a focus on inequality, civic education, and democracy. He believes dialog across boundaries matters now more than ever.

• Foreword: Leadership Properly Understood 1. Introduction: Conceptualizing Foundations of Responsive Educational Leadership 2. Challenges Abound 3. The Local/Global Pendulum: Context, Place and Educational Leadership 4. Building a Strategic Framework for Responsive Educational Leadership 5. Actions Focused on Learning and Development 6. Using Responsive Leadership to Re-Form School 7. A Bird’s Eye View: Everything Is Connected

‘We are facing a number of serious challenges all over the globe and we need to search for adequate ways to deal with them when current approaches cease to be effective. Undoubtedly, education needs to be in the core of these initiatives. This is why the search for responsive leadership is so topical. This book is a valuable contribution to these efforts.’Professor Milan Pol, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic‘Mazurkiewicz and Fischer readily acknowledge the complicated nature of our world, the challenges facing humankind locally and globally, and the integral role that education plays. They urge all of us to take up the challenge of bettering our children, our schools, our world, and ourselves. That is what good educational leaders do—identify the challenges, see the possibilities, and realize the potential within all of us.’ W. Kyle Ingle, Professor, Educational Leadership, The University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA