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This book takes the idea of distributing leadership in schools to a new level of understanding and practice. The authors address the complexities of leadership by putting forward two essential propositions. The first is the need to understand leadership as the outcome both of people’s intentions and the complex flow of interactions in the daily life of schools. The second is the need to integrate values of social justice and democracy into our understanding of leadership. Building on this insight, the authors show how leadership can be truly collaborative. The book also combines practice, theory and research and draws on the authors’ international experience. This book is an invaluable resource for reflection and change for everyone who contributes to and studies leadership – senior leaders, teachers, support staff, students and researchers.
Developing Collaborative Leadership: Enabling Structures and Creative Spaces
Developing Collaborative Leadership: Enabling Structures and Creative Spaces
Introduction
This chapter explores the structures and emergent spaces that facilitate learning and critical intentionality, and hence give sustenance to creativity and the freedom to engage in pro-active agency. The dynamics in these spaces create possibilities for people to formulate intentions and take initiatives, individually and in collaboration with others, and to help shape the leadership that emerges.
Leadership is as much a product of the organisation as the individual. This is another way of saying that leadership is both emergent and intentional. It involves social processes and agency. We use the trialectic view of social dynamics as an analytical frame to help capture this understanding of leadership. The trialectic frame ...
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