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Managing to be Different: Educational Leadership as Critical Practice: Routledge.


www.routledge-ny.com, $21.95

In this book, Ron Scapp This biographical article or section is written like a resume.
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 argues that educational leadership has come to rely too heavily on corporate models, values and personnel to guide the direction of academic administration from elementary school elementary school: see school.  through graduation. He moves teaching and its facilitation back to the center of scholarship, asking how school leaders might connect their work more integrally with the ideals and practices of critical pedagogy Critical pedagogy is a teaching approach which attempts to help students question and challenge domination, and the beliefs and practices that dominate. In other words, it is a theory and practice of helping students achieve critical consciousness. .
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Author:Patton, Carol
Publication:District Administration
Article Type:Book review
Date:Sep 1, 2006
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