Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
In this book, Judith Norris presents a theoretical model that demonstrates a new approach to understanding how school leaders respond to conflicting expectations and demands. The idea of sensemaking and sensegiving is theoretically interesting and allows the reader to focus on how school leaders make sense, but also how they give sense to others in the complex conditions that educators now must negotiate. Like the Eucalyptus tree, educational leaders must adapt to their contradictory environments.
Written in the most accessible way, the theory and its application will likely appeal not only to researchers, but also to teachers and school administrators. Norris has created a real applicability to school leadership in various international contexts.
Written in the most accessible way, the theory and its application will likely appeal not only to researchers, but also to teachers and school administrators. Norris has created a real applicability to school leadership in various international contexts.
Price: $153.00
Pages: 266
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Educational Leadership and Leaders in Contexts
Publication Date:
07 April 2022
ISBN: 9789004517196
Format: Hardcover
"In closing, I want to express appreciation to Judith Norris for bringing attention to the complex, dynamic, and sometimes volatile demands placed on school leaders and for developing a theoretical model for principals to manage their often-competing professional expectations. [...] Norris’s synthesis of the psycho-social processes of sensemaking and sensegiving, and their integration with related leadership and behavioral theories, offers a framework for leaders to manage their challenging conditions."
– Jennifer Martin Flewelling, Assistant Professor of education at Endicott College
– Jennifer Martin Flewelling, Assistant Professor of education at Endicott College
Judith M. Norris, Ed.D. (2017), Australian Catholic University, is Senior Lecturer of Educational Leadership Studies at that university. She has co-published with colleagues in educational leadership, blogging regularly for Master students and researching about and with school leaders.