Promoting Quality Hybrid Learning Through Leadership and Educational Management


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The confluence of transformative global events, including a pandemic, the repercussions of climate change through extreme weather, and widespread political instability has jolted educational systems, prompting a rapid overhaul of conventional teaching and learning approaches. The embrace of remote and hybrid learning models has exposed institutional vulnerabilities, compelling a reevaluation of adaptability, leadership, and management strategies. Amid this novel educational landscape, the urgency for effective solutions has grown, spotlighting the need to uphold educational standards, cultivate engagement, and provide steadfast leadership. Promoting Quality Hybrid Learning Through Leadership and Educational Management, edited by Edgar Oliver Cardoso Espinosa, emerges as a guiding compass. This book intricately dissects the interplay between leadership, educational management, and technology, offering a comprehensive panacea for the challenges inherent in hybrid learning models. Curated from the collective wisdom of scholars and practitioners, this book offers a roadmap for institutions, distilling invaluable insights on adept leadership techniques, effective management practices, and the seamless fusion of digital tools to enhance the educational experience. Beyond a mere volume, it serves as a transformative tool for educators, researchers, and leaders seeking to recalibrate education for contemporary demands, shaping immersive learning environments and instilling the confidence to navigate an evolving educational vista.




Cultures of Educational Leadership


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This book explores how to be fully cross-cultural and intercultural with research and theory building in educational leadership. It adopts an integrated approach to the examination of common issues across and between cultures and contexts. Each chapter examines an issue or a set of issues that builds on evidence from a minimum of three countries across at least two continents. The data collection methods are consistent for all countries and therefore allow meaningful conclusions to be drawn across the field. All six continents are represented in the book, including both developing and developed countries, to ensure an open dialogue and an innovative approach to lay the foundations for future research.




Leadership for Inclusive Education


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Inclusion is increasingly becoming one of the policy drivers shaping educational discourse and practice. What constitutes the term “inclusion” itself and how ideas derived from the different perspectives on inclusion impact school leadership practice point to a highly contested field of enquiry. Originally embedded in discourse relating to special education, ideas relating to inclusion are attracting much broader appeal within system reforms in many jurisdictions. This book seeks to keep the consideration of inclusion firmly in its broader context and to decouple it from the discourse relating to students with special educational/additional needs. This allows the authors to position their contributions more explicitly within discourses that draw on difference and diversity as unavoidable features of schools. Within this collection we address the current political dogmas in many countries that take a purely rational, managerial approach to leadership, arguing that this is not contributing to inclusion in schools. In doing this, the book seeks to shape current discourses on leadership by exploring perspectives which are likely to enhance our understanding of inclusion. Tolerance, respect, listening, clarifying language, being comfortable with differences and ambiguity and articulating and challenging the rationale behind “the way we do things around here” are key aspects of inclusive leadership, and also fundamental imperatives for writing this book. It will be useful to those in education who are engaged in further academic study in education or in reflective practice and to anyone taking advanced programmes in educational leadership and management. The international perspectives on the issue of inclusion informing this book ensure that this book will be essential for those engaged in a comparative analysis of leadership practice in different contexts or those concerned with the complexity of ensuring inclusive models of education.




Teacher Leadership in International Contexts


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This book addresses the critical gaps among understandings of teacher leadership across organizational and cultural contexts. It challenges the use of the term teacher leadership as if there is a widely shared understanding of what it is and what it means for exercising influence and making decisions. The book describes how implicit meanings and competing assumptions about teacher leadership may contribute to uncertainty and confusion in school communities. The authors caution against the incorporation of teacher leadership in international policy making discussions without adequate consideration of contextual, organizational, historical, and cultural differences that may lead to school community members struggling to accommodate the concept or, worse, ignoring other frameworks for facilitating more culturally appropriate decision making. This book shares the findings of research conducted in several North American, European, African, Latin-American, and Australasian contexts as part of the International Study of Teacher Leadership. Study findings are used to posit contextualized conceptualizations of teacher leadership and to offer a perspective for positioning researchers and practitioners in the international teacher leadership discourse.




School-to-School Collaboration


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Taking a global perspective, the chapters within this book follow a common framework to explore how macro-level factors help to create the conditions in which school-to-school collaboration is likely to succeed or fail ‘on the ground’.




Visión Cumplida


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¿Te cuesta llevar a cabo tus estrategias y gestionar el caos organizativo? ¿Tienes la sensación de no controlar tu proyecto de organización en el día a día? ¿Te gustaría ganar consciencia, enfoque y claridad en tu liderazgo? ¿Te gustaría vivir tu vida personal y profesional de forma más libre? A todas estas cuestiones te doy respuesta en este libro. Este libro es para todos aquellos que buscan dejar de ser empujados por una inercia que no controlan, y con ello tomar las riendas de sus visiones, para llevarlas al campo de la acción. Es para todos aquellos que buscan la libertad, la coherencia y la presencia en la gestión. Es para todos aquellos que quieren abrir definitivamente su vida y sus organizaciones a una nueva forma de percibir, de pensar, de sentir, de hacer y de ser. Una nueva forma de liderar más consciente, más organizada, más constante en su esfuerzo, más enfocada, más saludable, y al final, más rentable. Menos estresada y sufrida. En este libro te propongo el Modelo Ejecutivo de Liderazgo, el primer modelo diseñado desde el conocimiento neuropsicológico de la inteligencia ejecutiva y sus funciones. En este libro te desvelo las claves para entender la parte ejecutiva de la inteligencia humana, y el cómo aplicarlo al día a día de liderar. Porque necesitamos un conjunto de competencias nuevas, que nos ayuden a dirigir la inteligencia en todas sus funciones: desde la percepción, hasta el paso a la acción. Doce funciones para liderar un futuro mejor. Visión Cumplida es para todas aquellas personas que desean transformar la inteligencia de sus organizaciones, y convertirlas en sistemas que evolucionan y se preadaptan a las necesidades de su contexto interno y externo actuales y futuros. La inteligencia de los líderes nunca antes se ha enfrentado a una complejidad, volatilidad y multiplicidad de opciones de pensamiento y acción como las actuales. Y, en medio de todo esto, tiene un gran reto: construir y seguir una visión mejor. Solo construyendo mejores visiones, y moviéndonos hacia ellas, conseguiremos evolución. Este fue siempre el fin último de la inteligencia.




Future Alternatives for Educational Leadership


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This book offers provocations for what’s now and what’s next in educational leadership, simultaneously bringing the field both back to its basics—of equity, democracy, humanity, and education for all—and forward to productive, innovative, and necessary possibilities. Written during the pandemic reality of 2020, this collection shares the global voices and expertise of prominent and emerging leaders, scholars, and practitioners in education from the UK, the United States, South America, Canada, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East. The authors engage with the complexities and uncertainties of leading in education. They examine research, reflections, and real stories from which school leaders, education system leaders, policymakers, and researchers in the field of educational leadership, can learn, and in which they will find honesty, authority, and inspiration to guide the future of the field. The new perspectives and hopeful alternatives presented in this outstanding book are essential to researchers, school leaders, and policymakers, and are key to advancing education into positive and democratic futures.




Affectivity and Learning


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This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of affectivity and human learning by bridging the gap between neuroscience, cultural and cognitive psychology. It brings together studies that go beyond the focus on cognitive-intellectual variables involved in learning processes and incorporate the study of the role played by affectivity and emotions in learning not only at educational settings but in all processes of transformation and human development, thus presenting affectivity as a catalyst and mediator of all daily learning processes. Chapters brought together in this contributed volume present both theoretical contributions and results of empirical research from different disciplines, such as neuroscience, cognitive psychology, cultural psychology, educational psychology, developmental psychology and philosophy, and are grouped into five thematic sections. The first part of the book brings together chapters discussing different aspects of the role played by affectivity in learning processes from the perspectives of cultural, educational and developmental psychology. The second part is dedicated to the role of affectivity for teachers during their training as educators and during their pedagogical practice in diverse contexts. The third part focuses on the relationship between affectivity and learning from a neuroscientific point of view. The fourth part discusses affectivity and learning in therapeutic and clinical contexts. Finally, the fifth part brings together chapters about affectivity and learning in everyday life. By bringing together this rich interdisciplinary collection of studies, Affectivity and Learning: Bridging the Gap Between Neurosciences, Cultural and Cognitive Psychology will be a valuable resource for researchers in the fields of psychology, neuroscience and education, as well as for educators and teachers interested in knowing more about the relationship between affectivity and human learning.




El aprendizaje cooperativo


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Doing Synodality


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In recent years, the image of a Catholic Church needing renewal has deepened in the German public arena. The Synodal Path identified structural aspects underlying the ecclesial crisis and proposed solutions debating issues such as clerical power, sexuality, participation, and the role of women. Considering the importance of these deliberations for the universal Church and their controversial international discussion, the need for intercultural dialogue became increasingly clear. The empirical project "Synodal Way – Global Church Perspectives" aimed to weave the polyphony of Global-Church perspectives into the debate. This volume presents the research's results and their analysis by academics from different world regions, fills a gap in intercultural mediation, and offers an inspiring contribution to the ongoing synodal dialogue.