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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: Identity Change
Developing Collaborative Leadership: Identity Change
Introduction
Being part of collaborative leadership practice involves changes in how those in both non-positional and positional leadership roles see themselves and the kinds of attitudes and capabilities they see as important for them to foster and develop. As a consequence, these changes have an impact on identity. They are part of creating or evolving a leadership identity. It is important then to consider what we mean by identity.
In everyday parlance, the term ‘identity’ is used to refer to particular characteristics and attributes of an individual by which we distinguish one person from another – the human capacity to know who is who (Jenkins, 1996). A dominant feature of this way of seeing identity is that ...
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