Distributed Leadership in Practice

Distributed Leadership in Practice
Distributed Leadership in Practice

Authors - James Spillane & John B. Diamond

Distributed leadership has become an important term for educational policy-makers, practitioners and researcher around the world, but there is much diversity in how the term is understood. The appeal of a distributed perspective lies partially in the ease with which it becomes many things to many people. Frequently used as a synonym for democratic leadership, shared leadership, collaborative leadership, participative leadership and so on, the distributed perspective easily and effortlessly entered the discourse about school leadership and management.

Some teachers and administrators use the distributed leadership perspective as though it were a blueprint or recipe for effective school leadership. Others use it as a conceptual or analytical lens for investigating school leadership. Some move back and forth, sometimes unknowingly, between normative and theoretical stances. Such diversity in usage and understanding is to be expected; it is the way that ideas work in the world of practice, scholarship and development.

This book examines what it means to take a distributed perspective based on extensive research and a rich theoretical perspective developed by experts in the field. Including numerous case studies of individual schools and providing empirically based accounts of school settings using a distributed perspective, this thorough volume:

1. explores how a distributed perspective is different from other frameworks for thinking about leadership;
2. provides clear examples of how taking a distributed perspective can help researchers understand and connect more directly to leadership practice;
3. illustrates how the day-to-day practice of leadership is an important line of inquiry for scholars and for those interested in improving school leadership.

ISBN: 9781760014186
No of Pages: 202
Publish Date: 11 March 2015
HB
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