Browsing Education Conference Papers by Author "8e085f07-11c9-4ba9-b274-8331dcf97ece"
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The challenge of reaping a harvest from school-based learning initiatives: Sources of learning through the perspectives of school leaders, teachers and students
(2010)Implementing and sustaining school-wide learning initiatives through a wider distribution of leadership is espoused as a means of generating a higher quality ‘harvest’ of student learning outcomes. Two in-depth 20-month ... -
The complexity of distributed forms of leadership in practice
(International Leadership Association (ILA), 2013)Distributed leadership is a free-floating concept that is often oversimplified as a mode of leadership and development suitable for twenty-first century organisations, particularly in education. This paper provides an ... -
Having the ‘presence’ and courage to see beyond the familiar: Challenging our habitual assumptions of school leadership
(2007)Leadership in education is at a critical point in relation to practice and research; intensification of work and a preference to prescribe what works contribute to the privileging of formal, individual and task-based forms ... -
The implementation of the revised New Zealand Curriculum: Unpacking the complexities of sustainability, school climate and distributed forms of educational leadership
(Australian Association for Research in Education, 2009-03-01)The day-to-day practice of educational leadership practice can be extremely complex, demanding and yet rewarding; it is a highly relational activity. At the very heart of changing the climate of a school in relation to ... -
“Should I stand back, or should I lead?” Developing intentional communal cultures of emergent and distributed forms of leadership in educational settings
(New Zealand Educational Administration and Leadership Society, 2008)The day to day practice of leadership in education can oscillate from being a rewarding activity one moment, to one that can be littered with confusion and dilemmas the next. Leadership practice can so often lie beyond ...
