Exploring Visual Method in the Field of Educational Leadership: Co-Creating Understandings of Educational Leadership and Authority in School Organisations

Autor/inn/en	Grimm, Frida; Norqvist, Lars; Roos, Katarina
Titel	Exploring Visual Method in the Field of Educational Leadership: Co-Creating Understandings of Educational Leadership and Authority in School Organisations
Quelle	In: Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 51 (2023) 5, S.1219-1238 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Grimm, Frida)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1741-1432
DOI	10.1177/17411432211030747
Schlagwörter	Visual Aids; Research Methodology; Instructional Leadership; Power Structure; Interviews; Research Projects; Governance; Foreign Countries; Persuasive Discourse; Visualization; Ethics; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anschauungsmaterial; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Forschungsvorhaben; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Ausland; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Visualisation; Visualisierung; Ethik; Schweden
Abstract	This paper contributes to method development in educational leadership research. The focus is on a visual method and the inclusion of visual material in data collection and analysis. Core concepts in this paper are educational leadership, power and authority. The method was used in face-to-face interviews in a research project that studied the steering and governing in, and of, Swedish schools. The method enhances verbal narratives when informants reason and motivate their understandings of positions, relations and hierarchies within the organisations. We found that using visual material encouraged informants to reason and problematise formalised leader positions, their relations and the hierarchies that appear. The method helps to visualise the informants' understandings of the power distribution within the organisation depending on whether positions are described as distant or close, horizontal or vertical. The method made the informants take a stand on complex matters, reflect, and gain insights about their organisations. It provided us, as researchers, with rich data material. By making subjective understandings visual, implicit assumptions were made explicit. This could challenge the knowledge on existing leadership and power norms within educational organisations, and most likely in other forms of organisations as well. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01