Distributed School Leadership: Making Sense of the Educational Infrastructure

Autor/inn/en	Larsson, Pär; Löwstedt, Jan
Titel	Distributed School Leadership: Making Sense of the Educational Infrastructure
Quelle	In: Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 51 (2023) 1, S.138-156 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Larsson, Pär)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1741-1432
DOI	10.1177/1741143220973668
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Participative Decision Making; Principals; Leadership Styles; Teacher Administrator Relationship; Educational Resources; Public Schools; Elementary Secondary Education; Faculty Development; Administrator Role; Meetings; Teamwork; Well Being; Counseling; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Principal; Schulleiter; Führungsstil; Bildungsmittel; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Meeting; Tagung; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Counselling; Beratung; Schweden
Abstract	Distributed leadership focuses on what teachers and school leaders do together, but also on how the situation mediates that interaction. This paper focuses on the importance and function of the situational dimension of practice. By framing situational aspects in terms of local educational infrastructure, it explores organizational components in the educational infrastructure and how they condition teachers' sensemaking about their instructional practice. Two schools in the same school district in Sweden were purposively chosen to reflect significant variation in student outcomes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, in addition to observations of meetings. The results show that an important function of the infrastructure is to facilitate and guide teachers' sensemaking about their instructional practice and that these processes are influenced by the clarity of the school's vision and the principal's use of the infrastructure for sensegiving purposes. The outcome is an argument for studying school leadership through the lens of organizational components in the educational infrastructure (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01