Democratic and collaborative leadership

Our published work includes:

Books

Educational Leadership for Social Justice and Improving High-Needs Schools: Findings from 10 Years of International Collaboration, B. Barnett P. A. Woods (eds), Information Age Publishing, in preparation.

Collaborative School Leadership: A critical guide, P. A. Woods A. Roberts, London: SAGE, 2018.

Transforming Education Policy: Shaping a democratic future, P. A. Woods, Bristol: Policy Press, 2011.

Book chapters

‘Democratic Leadership’, P. A. Woods, in R. Papa (ed), [Oxford] Encyclopaedia of Educational Administration, New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

‘School Leadership Preparation and Development in England’, P. A. Woods, J. Jarvis, A. Roberts, and S. Culshaw, in R. Papa (ed), [Oxford] Encyclopaedia of Educational Administration, New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

‘Autonomy and Regulation in the School System in England’, P. A. Woods, A. Roberts, J. Jarvis and S. Culshaw, in O. Johansson and H. Ärlestig (eds), Educational Authorities and Schools: Organisation and Impact in 20 States, Springer, in press 2020.

‘School Organisation: Authority, status and love as an integrative power’, P. A. Woods, in M. Connolly, D. H. Eddy Spicer, C. James S. Kruse (eds), The International Handbook on School Organization, London: SAGE, 2019.

‘Newness Against the Grain: Democratic emergence in organisational and professional practice’, P. A. Woods, A. Roberts, G. J. Woods, in Michael A. Peters Susanne Maria Weber (eds) Discourses and Ecologies of Innovation in the Creative University, Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2019.

‘Principles for enhancing teachers’ collaborative practice: lessons from the HertsCam Network’, A. Roberts P. A. Woods, in D. Frost (ed), Empowering Teachers as Agents of Change: Enabling a non-positional approach to teacher leadership, Cambridge: Leadership for Learning: The Cambridge Network, 2017.

‘Freedom: Uniqueness and diversity at the heart of social justice’, P. A. Woods, in P. S. Angelle (ed) A Global Perspective of Social Justice for School Principals, Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2017.

‘Against Ideology: Democracy and the human interaction sphere’, P. A. Woods, in E. Samier (ed), Ideologies in Educational Administration and Leadership, London: Routledge, 2016.

‘Democratic Roots: Feeding the multiple dimensions of of leadership-as-practice’, P. A. Woods, in J. A. Raelin (ed) Leadership-as-Practice:Theory and Application, London: Routledge, 2016.

Journal articles

‘Collaborative School Leadership in a Global Society: A critical perspective’, P. A. Woods A. Roberts, Educational Management Administration Leadership, 47: 5, 663-677, 2019. (Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1741143218759088)

‘The unspoken power of collage? Using an innovative arts-based research method to explore the experience of struggling as a teacher’, S. Culshaw, London Review of Education, 17 (3): 268–283, 2019.

‘Theorising the value of collage in exploring educational leadership’, A. Roberts P. A. Woods, British Educational Research Journal, 44: 4, 626-642, 2018. (Available at https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3451)

‘Researching Holistic Democracy in Schools’, P. A. Woods, Democracy Education, 25(1), Article 7, 2017.

‘Distributed Leadership and Social Justice: Images and meanings from different positions across the school landscape’, P. A. Woods A. Roberts, International Journal of Leadership in Education, 19 (2): 138-156, 2016.

Other publications

Collaborative Teacher Learning: A Summary of Cases from the EFFeCT Project, A. Roberts, P. A. Woods L. Chivers, Hatfield, Hertfordshire: Centre for Educational Leadership, School of Education, University of Hertfordshire, 2017.

Collaborative Teacher Learning: Cases from the HertsCam Network, P. A. Woods, A. Roberts L. Chivers, Hatfield, Hertfordshire: Centre for Educational Leadership, School of Education, University of Hertfordshire, 2016.

Developing distributed leadership for equity and learning: A toolset for policy-makers and school leaders, P. A. Woods A. Roberts, European Policy Network on School Leadership (EPNoSL), 2015 (Available at https://herts.academia.edu/PhilipWoods)