'Closing the Gap': Systems Leadership Is No Leadership at All without a Moral Compass -- A Scottish Perspective

Autor/in	Mowat, Joan G.
Titel	'Closing the Gap': Systems Leadership Is No Leadership at All without a Moral Compass -- A Scottish Perspective
Quelle	In: School Leadership & Management, 39 (2019) 1, S.48-75 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-2434
DOI	10.1080/13632434.2018.1447457
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Educational Improvement; Equal Education; Achievement Gap; Educational Change; Systems Approach; Leadership; Poverty; Social Justice; Social Mobility; United Kingdom (Scotland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Bildungsreform; Systemischer Ansatz; Führung; Führungsposition; Armut; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Soziale Mobilität
Abstract	This conceptual paper provides a critical analysis of the current convergence of major policy initiatives in Scotland to improve learning and teaching, promote greater equity and close the attainment gap through systems level leadership and change. It is neither an empirical study nor a literature review but synthesises across a range of fields -- social justice, poverty, social mobility, school improvement, leadership and policy -- in order to cast light on the problem and to inform public policy and practice. However system level leadership is not unproblematic, with, as argued by Boylan, the terms system and leadership seen as malleable concepts, nor can it be seen as a panacea for all ills. The paper argues that educational policy needs to be seen as residing within wider social policy. Without recourse to addressing systemic inequalities in society and building the infrastructure and support structures around schools, schools, on their own, are unlikely to rise to the challenge. The paper argues for a melding of distributive leadership (with emancipatory intent and purpose) with systems leadership, characterised by meaningful collaboration and partnerships from 'within -- to between -- and beyond' schools (as suggested by Chapman), imbued with moral purpose. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01