Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- 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.

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