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Title: | Making sense of leadership development: Developing a community of education leaders |
Authors: | McCauley-Smith, C Williams, SJ Gillon, AC Braganza, A |
Keywords: | Leadership;Postgraduate higher education;Sense making;Leadership development |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Citation: | Studies in Higher Education, 40, (2), pp. 311 - 328 (2015) |
Abstract: | In education literature there is a distinct lack of scholarly work on issues of leadership other than on functional leadership at lower levels or high-level individual leadership activity which dominates existing studies. This empirical research is based on the result of a merger of education providers within the North East of England. A crucial aspiration of the newly merged organisation was to provide an overarching innovative leadership structure to facilitate integrated leadership. The specific focus of this article is participants of a bespoke postgraduate learning intervention. The authors apply sense-making theory to identify how student-leaders undertaking a leadership development intervention developed to become a community of education leaders. The reflective accounts of the student-leaders indicated a combined approach of distributed, shared and collaborative leadership. Whilst the study was conducted in the UK, the concepts and ideas are likely to have international application. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/12429 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2013.842209 |
ISSN: | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075079.2013.842209 0307-5079 |
Appears in Collections: | Brunel Business School Research Papers |
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