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Thomson, Pat; Hall, Christine – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2011
Scholars of educational change agree that leaders need to develop a vision, build capacity and ensure ownership of change by staff. We argue that understanding the actual work that leaders must do in order to convert these categories into action, requires a social practice approach. Taking the notion of sense-making as a social practice, drawn…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Schools, Ethnography, School Culture
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Thomson, Pat – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2011
New categories of leadership are continually being invented. Because the ways we think are productive of the ways in which we act, it is important to hold these rhetorical innovations to account. This paper focuses on the latest of these categories--creative leadership. Mobilising a Foucauldian notion of "discourse" I deconstruct the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Creativity, Educational Change, Leadership Styles