Teacher Leadership ― The New Foundations of Teacher Education, a Reader

Editor Eleanor Blair presents readers with a collection of academic and research perspectives on the role of teachers as leaders and its fundamental place at the core of student achievement. The editor has organized the twenty-six contributions that make up the main body of the text in five parts devoted to teacher leadership and social justice, teacher leadership and teachers’ work, teacher leaders as learners and leaders, teacher leaders in action, and teacher leadership in the twenty-first century given the changing culture of schools. The editor is a faculty member of Western Carolina University in North Carolina. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Eleanor Blair (PhD, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) is Associate Professor at Western Carolina University (WCU). She teaches foundations of education courses in curriculum, teacher leadership and history/philosophy of education at WCU and in Jamaica through the WCU-Jamaica program. Recent publications include The Social Foundations Reader: Critical Essays on Teaching, Learning and Leading in the 21st Century (co-edited with Yolanda Medina) and Foundations of Education: Teachers, Teaching and Teacher Leadership in Diverse 21st Century Schools (forthcoming in 2016).