CHAPTER 6

Leading as Shared Transformative Educational

Practice
LEADING
Important aspect of the
professional work and
experience of educators
 LEADING
How good leading as professional
practice is being understood and
experienced by teachers and educations?
 LEADING
It deals with understanding, practicing,
and changing practices of leading in
education.
 LEADING
Leading as a practice, attends to what
leaders say, how leading is done, and the
distinctive ways of relating in occasions
of leading.
 LEADING
The verb leading is adopted instead of
the noun “leadership”.
Leading
As a
Leading
Practice From,
Within, Leading
And
beyond As
The middle Democratic
Practice
 Leading as a Practice
Leading Practices in Educational Sites
Leading as a Practice-Changing Practice
Good Leading Practice
Leading that Enables
 Leading as a Practice
Leading is not automatically equated with
“doing the principalship” (Kemmis et al),
although some research examines the
leading of school principals.
 Leading as a Practice
Leading means enabling and constraining
other educational practices via changes to
site based arrangements to make certain
educational activities and outcomes
possible.
 Leading as a Practice
Instead, leading is constructed as a practice
enacted by a range of participants in any
educational institution.
Example : students’ leading practices and
the leading practices of teachers working
with their peers.
 Leading as a Practice
Good Leading Practice is understood as
enabling of other educational practices in a
way that has positive educational effects.
Leading varies especially to the needs and
the priorities of the educational system.
 Leading from, within, and beyond
the middle
Nehez et al (2008)describe ways process or
development leaders, as highly trusted
teachers, exercise their middle leading
within and beyond the immediate of school.
 Leading from, within, and beyond
the middle
Grootenboer, Edwards-Groves and
Ronnerman(2014) also conceptualise middle
leaders are regarded those teachers in school who
have both an acknowledged leading position and
regular classroom teaching responsibilities.
Middle leaders bridge the educational work of
classroom and the management practices of
administrators.
 Leading from, within, and beyond
the middle
Teacher’s practices of leading FROM and
WITHIN the middle involves engaging in
simultaneously interrelated practices – leading and
teaching by managing and facilitating educational
development through collaborating and
communicating to create communicative spaces
for sustainable future educational action.
 Leading from, within, and beyond
the middle
Middle leaders understand that their leading
practices as extending from managing the
curriculum,d elivery task to leading people from,
within and beyond their traditional spheres od
influences.
Examples : leading learners in their classrooms,
leading the professional learning of teachers in
their schools.
Leading as a Democratic Practice
In a democratic leadership style,
everyone is given the opportunity to
participate, ideas are exchanged freely,
and discussion is encouraged. While this
process tends to focus on group equality
and the free flow of ideas, the democratic
leader is still there to offer guidance and
control.
A leader is one who knows the
way, goes the way, and shows
the way.
-John Maxwell