Authentic Educational Leadership in Schools

About the Book

This text seeks to re-establish the place and the importance of a valuesbased, philosophically-underpinned, national educational provision, through which reason and integrity, intellect and morality, caring and sharing, are more highly valued as educational outcomes than are narrow academic achievements only, leading to ways and means for accruing power and material possessions. The text will be confronting to some in that it challenges the following: governments to re-conceive the purposes of education and of schooling; schools and their societies to more carefully evaluate their educational structures and processes; teachers to re-consider the breadth and assessment of curricular; and society in general to demand from politicians, suffi cient and appropriate economic and intellectual support to and for every school.

About the Author

Dr. Millikan was born in Victoria, was educated in both government and private schools. He fi rst attended University in his late twenties when he completed B.Mus.Ed. and B.Ed. degrees from the University of Melbourne. He began his teaching career, and was Director of Music in a government Special Secondary Music School prior to going to Edmonton, Canada, where he earned both M.Ed and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Alberta. Dr. Millikan has been a secondary teacher; Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Sub-Dean in the Education Faculty at the University of Melbourne; Acting Regional Director for the International Baccalaureate Organisation’s Asia- Pacifi c Regional Offi ce in Singapore; a National and International Educational Consultant; a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management; and he has been a conference presenter at various national and international educational conferences. He has written many both refereed and non-refereed journal articles, and co-authored ‘Creating and Excellent School’, published by Routledge in 1987, and a University of Melbourne in-house publication entitled: A Step by Step Approach to Thesis Writing. His areas of specialization are: School Governance, Strategic Planning, School Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Leadership, Assessment, and Teaching Pedagogies.