Session Information
26 SES 10 A, How Successful School Leaders Mediate and Enact Government Reforms
Symposium
Contribution
The research aimed to analyse how school leaders at all levels: 1) build and sustain a strategic and operational focus on the leadership of learning and teaching whilst managing wider government initiated structural and cultural changes 2) identify the key challenges and issues that they face, mediate change and sustain academic standards within a clear ethical and moral commitment to high quality education for all. Using a longitudinal, mixed methods design to investigate the interface of reform at macro (country), meso (school) and micro (classroom) levels, these analyses formed the basis for case studies of four most improved and effective secondary schools across diversified school populations in different socio-economic contexts. The research has produced new school-level empirical knowledge about how mandated reforms are mediated by principals, senior and middle leaders and teachers in improved and effective schools. The results show that it is too simplistic to focus on policy as implementation and either a top down or bottom up process. Rather, enactments involved more complex sets of interactions between school leaders, the staff and the wider school community, a clear ethical stance and the exercise of autonomy; and were layered into school identified improvement priorities.
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