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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Harris, Alma – Management in Education, 2009
One of the essential ingredients of high-performing individuals, teams and organisations is creativity. To be creative means releasing talent and imagination. It also means the ability to take risks and, in some cases, necessitates standing outside the usual or accepted frames of reference. Creative people push the boundaries; they seek new ways…
Descriptors: Creativity, Figurative Language, Leadership Qualities, Leadership
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Harris, Alma; Spillane, James – Management in Education, 2008
Distributed leadership is an idea that is growing in popularity. There is widespread interest in the notion of distributing leadership although interpretations of the term vary. A distributed leadership perspective recognises that there are multiple leaders and that leadership activities are widely shared within and between organisations. A…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Instructional Leadership, Participative Decision Making, Power Structure
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Harris, Alma – Management in Education, 2005
Distributed leadership is a concept that is finding increasing support and is receiving widespread interest in the practitioner and research communities. So, why the interest in distributed leadership? While reasons for the contemporary interest certainly vary, it is suggested that reasons for the popularity of "distributed leadership" are…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Concept Formation, Participative Decision Making, Educational Administration