TY - BOOK AU - Bennett,Nigel AU - Anderson,Lesley TI - Rethinking educational leadership: challenging the conventions SN - 0761949240 U1 - 371.2 BEN PY - 2003/// CY - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - Sage Publications KW - Educational leadership KW - EDUCATION KW - Administration KW - General N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The charismatic transformational leader, who creates a 'vision' for the future of their organization and persuades others to follow their path towards it, is now the dominant viewpoint that underpins government policies towards leadership development in the English-speaking world. This book offers a much-needed corrective to this orthodoxy by focusing on current research and thinking about 'leadership' rather than 'leaders. A wide range of prominent international contributors present a rare self critical look at their own assertions and test alternative leadership models against recent researc ER -