Session Information
26 SES 12 A, Reframing Leadership and Leading in Education: Diverse Responses from Scholars Across the Field (Part 1)
Symposium to be continued in 26 SES 13 A
Contribution
This is the first part of the symposium titled Reframing Leadership and Leading in Education: Diverse Responses from Scholars Across the Field. All the papers presented in this symposium are from the upcoming Elgar Handbook of Leadership in Education, edited by Professor Philip A. Woods, Dr Amanda Roberts, Dr Meng Tian and Dr Howard Youngs (2023).
Past decades have witnessed the rapid development of educational leadership research. Numerous educational leadership approaches and models have been devised or adopted from other fields to guide leadership practices in educational institutions and to inform education policymaking (Bush, 2020; Bush et al., 2019; Heck & Hallinger, 2005). This development has been captured and recorded in a series of educational leadership handbooks (e.g., Davies & West-Burnham, 2003; English, 2011; Stone-Johnson & Wright, 2020; Waite & Bogotch, 2017).
This Elgar Handbook of Leadership in Education aims to offer fresh approaches to understanding and practising leadership in education and to locate these within the context of education development. A total of 34 chapters were commissioned, each of which was refereed before acceptance for publication.
In this symposium, the authors of four chapters will invite the audience to reflect on, problematise and challenge some fossilised concepts used in educational leadership research such as leadership, accountability, autonomy, organisational practice, partnerships, networks, transactional, transformational and transformative leadership. Educational policies and leadership practices in Scotland, New Zealand and England are discussed.
Papers and presentations included in this symposium explore the weighty and profound responsibilities and challenges that leaders in the context of education carry. It does not offer answers which should be absorbed and stored, to be retrieved as needed. Rather, the presenters will bring forth various thinking tools. The presentations comprise a wide range of discussions that raise questions and share responses to wicked problems in education. The presenters set out ideas, provocations, arguments, considered evidence and implications for research, policy and practice. Symposium participants are invited to journey through the particular debates which draw their interest and make them think critically about leadership in education. This includes attending to the presenters’ explicit and implicit conceptualisations and assumptions concerning key concepts such as leadership and education and reflecting on what thoughts and questions this stimulates about one’s own conceptual and theoretical assumptions.
This symposium adopts the presentations, discussion and Q&A format. Chapter authors will first present their works. This is followed by a panel discussion hosted by the discussant. In the last part of the symposium, the audience will have the opportunity to engage in the conversation and ask questions to the presenters.
References
Bush, T. (2020). Theories of Educational Leadership and Management (Fifth edition). SAGE Publications Ltd. Bush, T., Bell, L., & Middlewood, D. (2019). Principles of Educational Leadership & Management. SAGE. Davies, B., & West-Burnham, J. (2003). Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management. Pearson Education. English, F. W. (Ed.). (2011). The SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership: Advances in Theory, Research, and Practice (Second edition). SAGE Publications, Inc. Heck, R. H., & Hallinger, P. (2005). The Study of Educational Leadership and Management: Where Does the Field Stand Today? Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 33(2), 229–244. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741143205051055 Stone-Johnson, C., & Wright, C. (2020). Leadership Preparation for Social Justice in Educational Administration. In R. Papa (Ed.), Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education (pp. 1065–1084). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14625-2_73 Waite, D., & Bogotch, I. (Eds.). (2017). The Wiley International Handbook of Educational Leadership (1st edition). Wiley-Blackwell. Woods, P. A., Roberts, A., Meng Tian, & Youngs, H. (Eds.). (2023). Elgar Handbook of Leadership in Education. Edward Elgar Publishing.
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