Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World 1st Edition by Mike Bottery 9781472568274 1472568273

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• ISBN 10: 1472568273 
• ISBN 13:9781472568274
• Author: Mike Bottery 

Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World
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Table contents:

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE
PART ONE Describing and Identifying the Problems
CHAPTER ONE Leading Sustainability, Sustaining Leadership
Introduction: A leadership of pressure and paradox?
Sustainability through the greater recognition of complexity
Educational leadership and the evaluation of contrasting claims
An educational leadership response
CHAPTER TWO The Meanings of Sustainability and the Dynamics of its Decline
Creating greater sustainability: Maintenance or change?
Business influences on the definition of sustainability
Sustainability and educational leadership
Environmental influences on sustainability
From sustainability to unsustainability: The stressing of systems
Reaching crisis point
What can be learnt about the sustainability of educational leadership from such comparisons?
Conclusions
CHAPTER THREE Tame, Wicked and Humble Leadership
Introduction
Living in a complex world
The tame and the wicked
Wicked problems
Tame and wicked distinctions, or tame and wicked continua?
The advent of super-wicked problems?
Changing the nature of educational leadership
Conclusion: Tame, wicked and humble leadership
CHAPTER FOUR Efficiency, Sufficiency and Educational Leadership
Introduction
Efficiency as an unsustainable concept
Efficiency in a wider societal role
Sufficiency as an imperative value
Sufficiency as a necessary but not a sufficient condition
Sustainability, sufficiency and changing leadership values
As many problems as answers; or as many answers as problems?
Reflecting on macro-problems
PART TWO Global Drivers of Unsustainability
CHAPTER FIVE Cultures of Economic Growth and Consumption
Introduction: Consumption, storage and clutter
Economic imperialism?
The concept of economic growth
(a) Description or prescription
(b) Do people always choose to consume, or are they persuaded into believing they must?
(c) What threats are posed by making consumerism a primary personal and social goal?
Final thoughts: Is consumption then really that good, or are there other goods more worth having?
CHAPTER SIX Global Energy Challenges
Introduction: Raising the flag
Is the challenge one of energy supplies, or one of EROI?
How quickly are we moving from ‘easy’ to ‘tough’ energy?
It’s not what’s there, it’s what you can access . . .
International problems and national energy security
The future of unconventional energy sources
A super-wicked problem requiring a super-wicked response?
Energy trends, climate change and educational involvement
Energy and the impact on education
Educational localization
Final thoughts
CHAPTER SEVEN Climate Change and the Assessment of Evidence
Introduction
The problem of climate change from different perspectives
The role of the economist in climate change
Fuel usage, greenhouse gases and climate change
Further confirmatory evidence
Prehistory and history
Future climatic effects
Four potential tipping points
The human response: From Rio de Janeiro to the IPCC reports
Conclusion: Certainty, clumsy solutions and the attribution of blame
CHAPTER EIGHT Emerging Population Patterns: Impacts and Responses
Introduction
A topic much neglected
(1) Expanding populations
(2) Urban–rural transitions
(3) Ageing populations, and a new focus for education
(4) Epidemiological transition
The future terms of the debate: Ageing populations and lower birth rates?
Global trends, educational challenges
Optimum populations, optimum growth?
Concluding thoughts: A stronger ethic of equity?
PART THREE Towards a Leadership for Sustainability
CHAPTER NINE Securing Educational Sustainability in a Wicked World
Introduction
Wicked challenges
Wicked approaches to wicked solutions
Constructing sustainable education systems
(1) From an epistemology of humility to an ethic of humility
(2) Changing accountability frameworks
(3) Students and their learning
Educational leadership change
Conclusion: The need for thinking and feeling
CHAPTER TEN The Leadership of Well-being
Introduction
Positive psychology and well-being research
Can this approach fill gaps in a sustainability agenda?
Beyond human well-being
Final thoughts: Into political waters again
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Futures of Educational Leadership
Introduction
The futures of education
Changing systemic emphases
The reframing of educational leadership practice
Educational leadership: Back to the future
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