Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Preface -- Biographical Notes -- Introduction: Rethinking Educational Leadership - Challenging the Conventions -- Section 1: Laying Out the Perspectives -- 1 Leadership in the (Post)Modern Era -- 2 Embracing Uncertainty: Organizing and Leading to Enhance the Knowledgeability and Capability of Teachers -- 3 Leadership, Learning and Negotiation in a Social Psychology of Organizing -- 4 Distributing and Intensifying School Leadership -- Section 2: The Perspectives in Practice -- 5 Challenging Circumstances: The Role of Distributed and Intensified Leadership -- 6 From Singular to Plural? Challenging the Orthodoxy of School Leadership -- 7 Developing Alternative Conceptions of Leadership and Organizations through Restructuring -- 8 Collaboration in Communities of Practice -- 9 Leaders of Subject Communities -- 10 Understanding Curriculum Leadership in the Secondary School -- Section 3: The Perspectives and Professional Development -- 11 Assessing the Impact on Practice of Professional Development Activities -- 12 Preparing for Leadership in Education: In Search of Wisdom -- Section 4: Review And Overview -- 13 Comparing and Contrasting the Perspectives: Mapping the Field of Educational Leadership -- Index.