Session Information
32 SES 14 A, Enacting Policies: How Does Leadership Influence Student Learning in Distinguished Contexts
Symposium
Contribution
This presentation will analyse the birth and the spreading of a major school-based innovation leading to a particularly effective new model of educating children with disadvantaged socio-economic background. The case to be presented has been included into the inventory of Innovative Learning Environments of OECD CERI (http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/49756250.pdf). It is the outcome of a complex process of institutional change in which “entrepreneurial leadership” (Kuratko, 2007) has played a crucial role and which has created an organisation described by Hargreaves (1999) as a “knowledge-creating school”. Given the high complexity and the “knowledge-intensity” (OECD, 2000) of the model its transfer to other schools has been exceptionally challenging. It has required intensive capacity building in the adopting schools, including both the development of the pedagogical skills of teachers and the development of organisational capacities. It has also required that the “donor school” develops new support and knowledge transfer capacities. The case has been thoroughly analysed in the framework of a major research that has been presented at the 2015 Budapest ECER conference (Fazekas, 2015). The proposed presentation will focus on the role of leadership (1) in creating school level innovations leading to a radically new, highly effective learning environment, and (2) in transforming a school into an institution transferring its knowledge to other schools. The case analysis will be put into the broader context of educational development in Hungary, using data collected in a major survey among approximately 600 schools and 1300 teachers participating in various development interventions aimed at changing classroom level pedagogical processes.
References
Fazekas, A. (2015). The impact of EU-funded development interventions on teaching practices in Hungarian schools. Paper presented at the 2015 ECER Conference. Budapest. Hargreaves, D. (1999). The Knowledge-Creating School. British Journal of Educational Studies. 47(2). pp. 122-144. Kuratko, D. F. (2007). “Entrepreneurial Leadership in the 21st Century,” Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies 13(4), 1–11. OECD (2000). Knowledge Management in the Learning Society. Paris: OECD.
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