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ERIC Number: EJ624230
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-189X
Investigating School Leadership Practice: A Distributed Perspective.
Spillane, James P.; Halverson, Richard; Diamond, John B.
Educational Researcher, v30 n3 p23-28 Apr 2001
Argues for scholarship that investigates leadership practice; specifically, the practice of leading classroom instruction. Articulates a distributed perspective, grounded in activity theory and distributed cognition, to frame such investigations. Suggests that school leadership is best understood as a distributed practice stretched over the school's social and situational contexts. (SM)
Descriptors: Context Effect, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Qualities, Teaching (Occupation), Urban Schools
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Distributed Practice