Pragmatic Adaptive Leadership

Pragmatic Adaptive LeadershipTools for Guiding in Complex Educational Systems\nAuthor(s): Simon Leonard, Samuel Fowler, JohnPaul Kennedy, Deborah Devis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781447376972, 978-1447376972\nSynopsis\nAvailable open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.\n\nTraditional governance in education often struggles to accommodate the dynamic and evolving interactions between cognitive, emotional and socio-cultural factors that shape learning.\n\nThis book introduces Pragmatic Adaptive Leadership, a systems-based approach that equips leaders and researchers with the tools to develop adaptive models of educational change. Drawing on social theory and complexity science, the authors provide practical frameworks for shaping future-orientated decision-making and policy development that meets learners where they are.\n\nEssential reading for school leaders, policy makers, educators and researchers of learn.