Pragmatic Adaptive Leadership: Tools for Guiding in Complex Educational Systems

Traditional governance in education often struggles to accommodate the dynamic and evolving interactions between cognitive, emotional and socio-cultural factors that shape learning.

This book introduces Pragmatic Adaptive Leadership, a systems-based approach that equips leaders and researchers with the tools to develop adaptive models of educational change. Drawing on social theory and complexity science, the authors provide practical frameworks for shaping future-orientated decision-making and policy development that meets learners where they are.

Essential reading for school leaders, policy makers, educators and researchers of learning sciences, this book offers vital tools for complexity-informed leadership.

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Pragmatic Adaptive Leadership: Tools for Guiding in Complex Educational Systems

Traditional governance in education often struggles to accommodate the dynamic and evolving interactions between cognitive, emotional and socio-cultural factors that shape learning.

This book introduces Pragmatic Adaptive Leadership, a systems-based approach that equips leaders and researchers with the tools to develop adaptive models of educational change. Drawing on social theory and complexity science, the authors provide practical frameworks for shaping future-orientated decision-making and policy development that meets learners where they are.

Essential reading for school leaders, policy makers, educators and researchers of learning sciences, this book offers vital tools for complexity-informed leadership.

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Pragmatic Adaptive Leadership: Tools for Guiding in Complex Educational Systems

Pragmatic Adaptive Leadership: Tools for Guiding in Complex Educational Systems

Pragmatic Adaptive Leadership: Tools for Guiding in Complex Educational Systems

Pragmatic Adaptive Leadership: Tools for Guiding in Complex Educational Systems

Overview

Traditional governance in education often struggles to accommodate the dynamic and evolving interactions between cognitive, emotional and socio-cultural factors that shape learning.

This book introduces Pragmatic Adaptive Leadership, a systems-based approach that equips leaders and researchers with the tools to develop adaptive models of educational change. Drawing on social theory and complexity science, the authors provide practical frameworks for shaping future-orientated decision-making and policy development that meets learners where they are.

Essential reading for school leaders, policy makers, educators and researchers of learning sciences, this book offers vital tools for complexity-informed leadership.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781447376989
Publisher: Policy Press
Publication date: 09/16/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 176

About the Author

Simon Leonard is Professor of the Learning Sciences at Adelaide University. An experienced educational designer and leader, his research focusses on sustainable research informed school improvement.

Samuel Fowler is Lecturer at Adelaide University. He researches psychological aspects of learning, including motivation and self-regulated learning, to develop authentic learning experiences and strengthen teachers’ pedagogical reasoning.

JohnPaul Kennedy is Senior Lecturer at Adelaide University. He researches students' attitudes towards learning and leads the development of light-touch measurement tools to facilitate data-informed educational change.

Deborah Devis is Research Fellow and educational designer at Adelaide University. She researches impactful educational change methodologies through systems and complexity thinking.

Table of Contents

1. Navigating the complexity of schooling

2. Future Oriented Decision Making

3. Three Future Oriented Learning

4. The Complexity of Learning Contexts

5. Pragmatic Adaptive Modelling: Expanding the educational world

6. Pragmatic Adaptive Leadership: Building the supports for SRL

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