Leadership Identity in a Small Island Developing State: The Jamaican Context

Autor/inn/en	Floyd, Alan; Fuller, Carol
Titel	Leadership Identity in a Small Island Developing State: The Jamaican Context
Quelle	In: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 46 (2016) 2, S.251-271 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7925
DOI	10.1080/03057925.2014.936365
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Leadership; Experience; Focus Groups; Semi Structured Interviews; Principals; Assistant Principals; Identification (Psychology); Culture; Socialization; Individual Power; Case Studies; Motivation; Educational Improvement; Leadership Role; Social Change; Jamaica + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Führung; Führungsposition; Erfahrung; Principal; Schulleiter; Principals; Stellvertretende Schulleitung; Kultur; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Eigeninitiative; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Sozialer Wandel
Abstract	While the role of leadership in improving schools is attracting more worldwide attention, there is a need for more research investigating leaders' experiences in different national contexts. Using focus-group and semi-structured interview data, this paper explores the background, identities and experiences of a small group of Jamaican school leaders who were involved in a leadership development programme. By drawing on the concepts of culture, socialisation and identity, the paper examines how the participants' journeys of becoming and being school leaders are influenced by national-level societal and cultural issues, experienced at a local level. The findings suggest that in becoming school leaders, the participants perceived that they had a strong sense of agency in attempting to change the social structures within the institutions they lead and in the surrounding local communities, which in turn, they hope, will have a lasting effect on the nation as a whole. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01