Table of Contents
Preface, Stephanie Chitpin and Colin W. Evers
Part I: Data Driven Decision Making
Chapter 1: The Changing Dynamics of Educational Judgment and Decision Making in a Data Driven World, Andy Hargreaves, Alex Gurn, Beth Morgan and Henry Braun
Chapter 2: Principals’ Evidence-Based Decision Making: Its Nature and Impacts, Jingping Sun
Part II: Emotional and Epistemological Decision Making Structures
Chapter 3: Capturing Principals’ Decision Making Processes in an Online Professional Learning Community, Stephanie Chitpin
Chapter 4: Decision Making as Problem-solving Trajectories, Colin W. Evers
Chapter 5: Emotions, Emotional Intelligence, and Leadership: From Folkpsychology to Neuroscience, Gabriele Lakomski
Part III: Complexity and Decision Making
Chapter 6: On the Job Decision Making: Understanding and Evaluating how Leaders Solve Problems, Viviane Robinson and Rozanne Donald
Chapter 7: Re-Visioning Decision Making in Educational Leadership, Peter Grimmett
Chapter 8: Principals’ Perceptions about Resistance to the Implementation of Major Decisions, Karen Starr
Chapter 9: Trusting our Schools: The ‘Soft’ Side of Decision Making, Dean Fink
Part IV: Ethical and Legal Issues
Chapter 10: Ethical Decision Making in Leadership: A Moral Literacy Perspective, Patrick Jenlink
Chapter 11: Justice and Equity in Educational Provision: The Case of Ontario, Marvin. A. Zuker
Chapter 12: Educational Leadership and Decision Making: Making the Politics and Policy Visible, Howard Stevenson