The Impact of Leadership in Primary Schools

Autor/in	Rutherford, Desmond
Titel	The Impact of Leadership in Primary Schools
Quelle	In: Management in Education, 18 (2004) 5, S.21-26 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0892-0206
DOI	10.1177/08920206040180050501
Schlagwörter	Test Results; Administrative Organization; Instructional Leadership; Principals; Elementary Education; Educational Research; Interviews; Catholic Schools; Catholic Educators; Foreign Countries; Outcomes of Education; Academic Achievement; Research Methodology; Academic Standards; Teacher Improvement; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Principal; Schulleiter; Elementarunterricht; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Katholische Schule; Katholische Erziehergemeinschaft; Ausland; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Schulleistung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Großbritannien
Abstract	The focus of this article is on leadership in primary schools and the author argues and provides some evidence that the leadership of the headteacher can make a dramatic difference and raise standards in a school. This is in sharp contrast to the rather tentative conclusions of previous academic research. The author also argues that school leadership, if it is to be really effective, must include major contributions from the deputy, the senior management team (or rather the leadership group), the rest of the school workforce and the governing body. In other words it is leadership that is widely shared that makes a difference. To support this argument, the author draws on interviews that he carried out in 2000 with two groups of six headteachers of successful primary schools in Birmingham as indicated by their key stage 2 test results (tests taken by pupils in their final year at primary school). All had been heads since the late 1980s or early 1990s and one of the groups was of Catholic primary heads. The first set of interviews focused on their senior management teams and the second on their deputies. In 2003, the author was able to re-interview six of these heads, focusing this time on their reflections on headship. In this article, the author intends to highlight the main findings from these interviews, appreciating that, as this is a small and limited sample, the wider relevance of the findings can be questioned. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10