This month featuring books on Leadership in Education  from Amazon

TITLE: A GUIDE FOR LEADERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Author: Brent D. Ruben, Richard De Lisi, Ralph A. Gigliotti

Publisher: Stylus Publishing

ISBN-13: 978-1642672459 

Whether facing falling enrollments, questions of economic sustainability, the changing composition of the faculty and student bodies, differential retention and graduation rates, declining public confidence in the enterprise, or the rise in the use of virtual technologies – not to mention how COVID-19 and an intensified focus on long standing issues of racial and gender representation and equity have impacted institutions and challenged many long-standing assumptions – it is clear that learning on the job no longer suffices. Leadership development in higher education has become essential for advancing institutional effectiveness, which is the focus of this book.

TITLE: FORMATIVE TOOLS FOR LEADERS IN A PLC AT WORK®

Author: Kim Bailey, Chris Jakicic

Publisher:  Solution Tree Press

ISBN-13: 978-1951075859

With this practical resource, you’ll first discover how to gather evidence from staff about PLC practices, processes, and products. Then, understand how to use the three stages of assessing, analyzing, and acting, gain clarity on what makes a successful professional learning community, and access tools and templates designed to support and strengthen team practices. Finally, you’ll explore how to use that evidence to gauge the effectiveness of your professional learning community (PLC) and make informed and targeted decisions about your collective next steps for a school culture of continuous improvement.

TITLE: LEADERSHIP: THEORY AND PRACTICE, 9TH EDITION

Author: Peter G. Northouse

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.

ISBN-13: 978-1544397566

This book presents an account of the major theories and models of leadership with a focus on how theory can inform practice. The author uses a consistent structure that allows readers to compare and contrast different theories. Case studies and questionnaires provide students with practical examples and opportunities to deepen their understanding of their own leadership style. This edition features a new chapter on inclusive leadership, 17 new real-world cases that profile leaders from across the globe, a new discussion on leadership and morality, and examples of timely issues such as leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.

TITLE: COMMITTING TO THE CULTURE: HOW LEADERS CAN CREATE AND SUSTAIN POSITIVE SCHOOLS

Authors:  Steve Gruenert, Todd Whitaker

Publisher: ASCD

ISBN-13: 978-1416627845

In this volume Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker go deep into the roots of culture change and explore how school leaders can positively shift their cultures in a sustainable way. The authors provide real-world scenarios to illustrate how their ideas and approaches work in practice. Leaders will gain profound insight into how to create meaningful change, with the goal not just to “transform” their school but also to get all members of the school community to commit to culture change—and make sure that change sticks.

This month featuring books on Great Thinkers from Northwestern University Press

TITLE: THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEGEL AS A DOCTRINE OF THE CONCRETENESS OF GOD AND HUMANITY

Edited and translated by: Philip T. Grier

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

ISBN-13: 9780810126091

This landmark two-volume translation from Russian of The Philosophy of Hegel as a Doctrine of the Concreteness of God and Humanity marks the first appearance in English of any of the works of Russian philosopher Ivan Aleksandrovich Il’in (Ilyin). Originally published in 1918, on the eve of the Russian civil war, Il'in’s commentary on Hegel marked both an apogee of Russian Silver Age philosophy and a significant manifestation of the resurgence of interest in Hegel that began in the early twentieth century. Vol. 1 is “The Doctrine of God.” Vol. 2 is “The Doctrine of Humanity.”

TITLE: THE BIOPOLITICS OF PUNISHMENT - DERRIDA AND FOUCAULT

Edited by: Rick Elmore and Ege Selin Islekel

Publisher:  Northwestern University Press

ISBN-13: 9780810144873

This volume marks a new chapter in the long-standing debate between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault regarding argumentative methods and their political implications. The essays chart the undertheorized dialogue between the two philosophers on questions of life, death, punishment, and power—an untapped point of departure from which we might continue to read the convergence and divergence of their work. What possibilities for political resistance might this dialogue uncover? And how might they relate to contemporary political crises? With the resurgence of fascism and authoritarianism across the globe, there is a pressing need to critically analyze our political present.

TITLE: KANT’S WORLDVIEW

Author: Rudolf A. Makkreel

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

ISBN-13: 9780810144309

In Kant’s Worldview: How Judgment Shapes Human Comprehension, Rudolf A. Makkreel offers a new interpretation of Immanuel Kant’s theory of judgment that clarifies Kant’s well-known suggestion that a genuine philosophy is guided by a world-concept  (Weltbegriff). To comprehend, according to Kant, is to possess sufficient insight into situations so as to also achieve some purpose. This requires that reason be applied with the discernment that reflective judgment makes possible. Comprehension, practical as well as theoretical, can fill in Kant’s world concept and his sublime evocation of a Weltanschauung with a more down-to-earth worldview.

TITLE: COGNITION AND WORK

Authors: Max Scheler

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

ISBN-13: 9780810142695

Available in English translation for the first time, Cognition and Work pushes the boundaries of phenomenology as it is traditionally understood and offers insight into Scheler’s distinct metaphysics. This book is essential reading for those interested in phenomenology, pragmatism, perception, and living beings in their relation to the natural world. The first part of the book offers one of the earliest critical analyses of American pragmatism. The second part of the work contains Scheler’s phenomenological account of perception and the experience of reality, an account that is as original as both Husserl’s and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenologies of perception.