Becoming a Scholar - Practitioner Leader

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
· The S-P Concept
· The S-P Leader
· Critical ethics and philosophical foundations
· 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.