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4 Principles of Educational Leadership and Management (2002: 4) argues that ‘the definition of leadership is arbitrary and very subjec-tive’, but the following ‘working definition’ includes its main features: Leadership is a process of influence leading to the achievement of desired purposes.
According to Bolman and Deal, frames are key to understanding leadership because frames direct what leaders think and how they will behave. Bolman and Deal describe four distinct leadership frames: structural, human resource, political and symbolic.
14 paź 2021 · Thereby, key elements of strategic leadership can be identified as one that: 1) acts in a proactive way to contextual changes; 2) leads school analysis and response to changing environment; 3) leads planning and action for school effectiveness and improvement in face of contextual challenges and; 4) leads monitoring and evaluation processes to ...
13 maj 2020 · Analysis using a phenomenographic approach revealed six categories and different ways of understanding leadership development: (1) one’s own development, (2) fulfilling a leadership role, (3) personal development, (4) leader and organizational development, (5) collective leadership development, and (6) human development.
1 cze 2019 · The present article provides an overview of main leadership theories such as instructional leadership, situational leadership, transformational leadership, distributed leadership and Leadership for Learning.
4 sie 2021 · They outline several features of successful school leadership, including being contextually literate, and the need for being values-driven. They conclude that successful school leadership is a function of structure and culture, supported by strategic thinking and analysis.
This review seeks to increase knowledge and understanding of school leadership and its relationship with school improvement and student outcomes. It will examine definitions, concepts and models of leadership and examine the outcomes of recent research on successful leadership of effective and improving schools.
