This new series focuses predominantly upon the relationship between leadership and learning. It also provides new and alternative perspectives on leadership which offer a direct challenge to the current orthodoxies of school leadership that persist, prevail and still dominate contemporary thinking. This book by Mike Bottery trail blazes the message that there are different ways of conceptualizing what leadership is, and should be, within a global society. In an informed but incisive way this book begins to dissect and dismantle some of the prevailing views about leadership, arguing that educational leaders need to engage with the wider, global influences that affect schools and schooling. Contained are the: List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Epigraph; and Foreword, followed by (1) The Book's Intentions, and (2) Shifting Frames of Reference: The Need for Ecological Leadership. Part 1: "Setting the Context" contains: (3) The Global Challenge; (4) The Impact of Commodification and Fragmentation; (5) The Impact of Standardization and Control. Part 2: "Examining the Impact" contains (6) The Impact on Trust; (7) The Impact on Truth and Meaning; and (8) The impact on Identity. Part 3: "Beginning a Response" contains (9) Learning Communities in a World of Control and Fragmentation; (10) Professionals at the Crossroads; and (11) Models of Educational Leadership. The bibliography and Index follow the chapters.