EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP Tony Bush Introduction: The Significance of Educational Leadership It is widely recognised that leadership is second only to classroom teaching in its impact on student learning. Leithwood et al.’s (2006) widely cited report shows that ‘leadership acts as a catalyst’ (p.4) for beneficial effects, including pupil ...
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alternative approaches based on school-level values and vision. Do they have to follow the script, or can they ad lib? (Bush 2003:1-2). Distinguishing educational leadership and management The concept of manage ment overlaps with that of leadership, a notion of gr eat contemporary interest in most countries in the developed world. It is also
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There have been many models and theories of educational leadership that have been promoted and one that has gained particular attention and favour is distributed leadership (Liljenberg, 2015; Youngs, 2009). Distributed leadership was first developed by Gronn (2002) and Spillane (2006) as a conceptual and theoretical framework for understanding the ...
While the sentiments of distributed leadership outlined above seem positive, the conception is not without issues and concerns. Some of these are philosophical or theoretical, some are practical and some are related to how it is interpreted and the ways it is taken up and used. Howard Youngs (2009) is one who has critiqued this and suggested that, ...
Similar, but not the same as distributed leadership, is the concept of dispersed leadership. Central to this was the notion of productive leadershipwhich included the following domains: 1. 1. focus on pedagogy; 2. 2. focus on management structures and strategies; 3. 3. focus on culture of care; 4. 4. focus on professional development and supporting...
Hybrid leadershipFootnote 4 was developed by Peter Gronn (2009, 2011), partly in response to some of the shortcomings that he perceived with distributed leadership. In particular, with the (re)emergence of distributed ideas of leadership around the turn of the century in response to the heroic individualistic models that dominated in the two decade...
Another form or conception of leadership that has gained popularity and acceptance is transformational leadership (Leithwood, Jantzi, & Steinbach, 1999). According to Urlick (2016): The notion of transformational leadership was seen as providing a foundation for understanding and developing principals’ leadership to include managerial, strategic, a...
Another notion of leading that is still developing is generative leadership (Edwards-Groves & Rönnerman, 2013), which specifically links leading and professional learning in educational sites. Specifically, in their study, they found that leading practices developed from ongoing programmes of professional learning that focused not only on student l...
The conceptualisations of curriculum or instructionalleadership are included here because often, in practice in schools and other educational sites, it is middle leaders who provide this leadership. However, these models were primarily developed for principals or positional heads, so there is not a direct relationship or application to middle leade...
Notwithstanding the points made above, about the apparent benefits of instructional leadership, there have been some issues and concerns expressed. At a fundamental level, there is some ambiguity about the concepts and nature of the model, particularly in more recent years where it has been challenged by other conceptions and theories, such as dist...
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Dec 6, 2021 · Educational leadership is built on the premise of constructing and applying knowledge in ways that make a positive difference. Through collaboration and communication, professionals in educational leadership work with diverse communities and build partnerships to promote positive outcomes by setting and meeting transformative goals.
Educational leadership is usually associated with formal organisational position in schools. So discussions about school leadership tend to refer to one or more of the following: Much research therefore focuses on principals (or equivalent) as the main source of leadership in a school. Educational leadership There are many definitions of ...
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study uses this approach to consider other theories, namely adult learning theory, the theory of situated learning (communities of practice), organizational change the - ory, and the continuous school improvement model (see Figure 1). As has been com - mon over the last few decades, much of the theory in the field of education was IJEPL 13(12 ...
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