Leading in Multicultural Schools

Velarde explores how cultural competencies and leadership styles can be integrated and maximized to create and sustain a healthy environment for better learning. This insightful, practical, and reflective guide will be useful as a reference for scholars and students in the field of educational leadership and management.

Autorentext

Joseph Malaluan Velarde is a lecturer at Taylor's University, Malaysia. He holds a PhD in education from the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. Having worked for more than 15 years in private secondary and international schools in the Philippines and in Malaysia, he currently teaches modules in sociolinguistics, pedagogy, educational research, and school leadership. His current research focuses on school leadership, teaching of English, and cultural diversity.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Developing Cultural Awareness and Competency through Cultural Intelligence 3. Applying Cultural Intelligence in Leading in Diverse Organisations 4. Integrating Instructional Leadership in the Implementation of Inclusive Programs and Policies 5. Maximising Transformational Leadership towards an Inclusive Vision and Action 6. Using Transactional Leadership Practices to Achieve and Sustain Organisational Harmony 7. Developing Future Leaders through Distributed Leadership in Multicultural School Settings 8. Sustaining a Healthy Organisation for Inclusive Education