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ERIC Number: EJ1092759
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Mar
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1741-1432
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Leadership at a Local Level--Enhancing Educational Development
Mårtensson, Katarina; Roxå, Torgny
Educational Management Administration & Leadership, v44 n2 p247-262 Mar 2016
This paper explores, mainly through a socio-cultural perspective, the role of mid-level leadership in higher education in relation to educational development. It is argued that supporting and engaging local-level leaders, such as academic programme directors, increases the potential for development of local teaching and learning cultures. The paper describes a programme in a research-intensive university, where leaders conduct scholarly projects focused on contextualised educational development and leadership. Projects are reported in writing and peer-reviewed within the programme. In this article 25 project reports are analysed through a framework focusing on the relational and contextual aspects of leadership. Four projects are specifically elaborated to illustrate important aspects of leadership that become visible through the analysis. These aspects relate to external and internal mandates to lead, i.e. the potential actions available to leaders when navigating the need to build and maintain legitimacy in the formal organisation as well as in the group/s that they as leaders try to influence.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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