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Inclusive Leadership - (Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education) by James Ryan (Paperback)

Inclusive Leadership - (Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education) by  James Ryan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Inclusive Leadership</i> draws on James Ryan's groundbreaking research to present a powerful new idea - leadership as an intentionally inclusive practice that values all cultures and types of students in a school. This important book shows that inclusion must encompass all types of difference in students, teachers, and parents - from the single mother to the new immigrant, from the parents working night jobs, to the homeless child, to issues of race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. In four fascinating chapters, James Ryan sketches out the dimensions of exclusion, analyzes the research on inclusive leadership, and offers practical suggestions for promoting and practicing inclusive leadership. <p>This book is a volume in the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education--a series designed to meet the demand for new ideas and insights about leadership in schools.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>In today's schools the diversity of the educational leaders has not kept pace with the growing diversity in the student population. As a result, the culture of school is often 'Balkanized'--making effective leadership a particularly difficult challenge.</p> <p><i>Inclusive Leadership</i> draws on James Ryan's groundbreaking research to present a powerful new idea--leadership as an intentionally inclusive practice that values all cultures and types of students in a school. This important book shows that inclusion must encompass all types of difference in students, teachers, and parents--from the single mother to the new immigrant, from the parents working night jobs, to the homeless child, to issues of race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. In four fascinating chapters James Ryan sketches out the dimensions of exclusion, analyzes the research on inclusive leadership, and offers practical suggestions for promoting and practicing inclusive leadership.</p> <p><i>Inclusive Leadership</i> is a volume in the <b>Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education</b>, a distinctive series of original, accessible, and concise books designed to address some of the most important challenges facing educational leaders.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>James Ryan</b> is professor in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Prior to entering academia, Ryan was a teacher and administrator in schools in northern Canada. His research interests include leadership, diversity, and inclusion.</p>

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