Description - Conceptual Practical Issues School 9 IP: Insights and Innovations from the U.S. and Abr Oad (New Directions Sch Ldrshp, Mng 9,Nov 1998 Sl) by Vivian Williams
For many educaiors the practice of "leadership" is tediously
elusive and problematic, embedded within opaque theoretical
concepts. The extensive literature emphasizes innovative strategies
and new goals for leaders in political, corporate, and public
sector organizations. Invariably, nostrums are prescribed for the
most closely observed but least comprehended patterns of human
behavior-leadership.
In this issue, authors who have been involved in developing new
strategies for leadership practice provide perspectives on
educational change and current experience in the United Kingdom,
Israel, and the United States. Their personally significant themes
demonstrate that in response to fundamental change, new leadership
cultures are essential to the development of more effective
schools. For school communities and practitioners these changes
bring new responsibilities together with associated opportunities
for professional leadership at school level.
Increasingly in education, as in all professional organizations,
leaders acknowledge that major distinctions exist between the
inadequacies of positional management processes and the clear
understanding of high-quality interpersonal relationships that are
required if effective leadership is to flourish in schools.
Although the contexts are remarkably diverse, it is evident that
concepts of leadership distributed among all practitioners on an
earned basis rather than limited to and based on positional status
are pivotal to the development of shared leadership practice
through mutually valued interactive processes.
It is hoped that these international perspectives will enhance
understanding of the positive realities of earned leadership
processes and contribute to a clarifying dialogue along the
professional highway toward more effective schools.
This is the 9th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions
for School Leadership.
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