Department Networks and Distributed Leadership in Schools

Autor/in	de Lima, Jorge Avila
Titel	Department Networks and Distributed Leadership in Schools
Quelle	In: School Leadership & Management, 28 (2008) 2, S.159-187 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-2434
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Teacher Leadership; Department Heads; Departments; Social Networks; Faculty Development; Organizational Climate; Power Structure; Participative Decision Making; Questionnaires; Foreign Countries; Secondary Schools; Portugal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Lehrerfunktionsstelle; Department; Abteilung; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Organisationsklima; Fragebogen; Ausland; Sekundarschule
Abstract	Many schools are organised into departments which function as contexts that frame teachers' professional experiences in important ways. Some educational systems have adopted distributed forms of leadership within schools that rely strongly on the departmental structure and on the role of the department coordinator as teacher leader. This paper reports a study of department networks and distributed leadership in two schools. The study collected two types of data on teacher networks in the schools: attributions of the influence of colleagues on one another's professional development and joint professional practice. Measures included actor centrality and network density. The study identified distinct leadership configurations in different departments. The implications for the study of distributed leadership and for the distribution of leadership roles in educational organisations are discussed. (Contains 2 tables, 4 sociograms and 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10