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Close, Paul, Kendrick, Ann and Outhwaite, Deborah (2018) Developing system leaders : a research engagement approach. Management in Education, 32 (2). pp. 79-84. doi:10.1177/0892020618762712 ISSN 0892-0206.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0892020618762712
Abstract
For those in ‘system leader’ roles in English schools, whether formally designated or informally appropriated, there has not been much systematic or long-term thinking about professional development to date. To contribute to such thinking, this paper presents a common framework for system leader development, based on consultancy research. The framework is broad in scope and critical in approach and can be adapted to role and function. Working within the assumption that all system leaders are consultants, it shows how a research engagement process can combine consultancy practice with consultancy research to generate professional development activities. During this process, system leaders work with HEI researchers, to progressively interrogate their practice against consultancy research around 4 themes:- ‘relationships’, ‘skills’, ‘outcomes’ and ‘the wider context’. At the same time, the researchers variously move through the roles of providers of research summaries, to co-creators of professional development activities, to co-facilitators of action learning sets. It is argued that this research engagement process has much to offer HEIs and groups of schools wishing to collaborate on system leader development in the interest of generating principled, long-term helping relationships in a self- improving system.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Teacher Education (Aug 2017 -) Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Teacher Education (Aug 2017 -) > Centre for Professional Education (- Jul 2017 ) |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Educational leadership, Career development, College teachers -- England | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Management in Education | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0892-0206 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 April 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 32 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 79-84 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0892020618762712 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 January 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 May 2018 |
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