Becoming a Scholar- Practitioner Leader The Critical Empowerment of Educators

It is widely believed that systematic inquiry by field-based practitioners is a distinctive and important way of informing practice. This new scholarship, in which scholar-practitioners engage, promotes collaboration between academics and practitioners, mediates practice and theory through disciplined inquiry, and values indigenous or practical knowledge along with formal or technical knowledge. This book, published within the best-selling Teacher's Library series, focuses on what a scholar-practitioner is, and what it takes to develop into a S-P Leader. This unique development of the S-P concept recognizes that S-Ps exist in communities that are part of a system in which individuals, groups and institutions are interrelated and interdependent. This means that knowledge and information acquired through enquiry should be shared with others in the community. Divided into 4 parts, the book considers: The S-P Concept The S-P Leader Critical ethics and philosophicalfoundations Knowledge and Enquiry Participation and Involvement Socio-political and Institutional Resistance Written by two well-known proponents of S-P, this accessible book will be relevant for teachers, school administrators, and university professors and administrators looking for information on how to prepare S-P Leaders within their communities and institutions.Horn, Raymond is the author of 'Becoming a Scholar- Practitioner Leader The Critical Empowerment of Educators', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415331739 and ISBN 0415331730.