Ecological Leadership: Going beyond System Leadership for Diffusing School-Based Innovations in the Crucible of Change for 21st Century Learning

Autor/inn/en	Toh, Yancy; Jamaludin, Azilawati; Hung, Wei Loong David; Chua, Paul Meng-Huat
Titel	Ecological Leadership: Going beyond System Leadership for Diffusing School-Based Innovations in the Crucible of Change for 21st Century Learning
Quelle	In: Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 23 (2014) 4, S.835-850 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0119-5646
DOI	10.1007/s40299-014-0211-4
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Educational Innovation; Educational Administration; Foreign Countries; Models; Instructional Leadership; Collectivism; Educational Resources; School Administration; Networks; Institutional Cooperation; Sociocultural Patterns; Asian Culture; Elementary Secondary Education; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Ausland; Analogiemodell; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Bildungsmittel; Institute; Co-operation; Cooperation; Institut; Kooperation; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Singapur
Abstract	Driven by the impetus for the school system as a whole to actualize deep twenty-first century learning, innovation diffusion has become increasingly an important vehicle for isolated pockets of successes to proliferate beyond the locale of the individual schools to form connected clusters of improvement at a greater scale. This paper articulates an ecological leadership model for enabling such system-wide innovation diffusion in the context of Singapore. Through the explication of leadership practices demonstrated by two exemplar schools that have successfully levelled up their school-based innovation, we argue that ecological leaders have to go beyond system leadership to think and act in a more encompassing way. Specifically, ecological leaders have to embody systems thinking and East-Asian collectivist beliefs to benefit other schools, converge and contextualize the kernel of innovation, align efforts by mitigating tensions and paradoxes within and across the subsystems in the ecology, leverage on resources in the ecology and manage the emergent dynamics engendered through interactions with multi-level actors. These five thrusts cut across the five dimensions of ecology: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem and chronosystem. With the favourable socio-political climate that encourages collaboration rather than competition, we posit that leaders can endeavour to forge ecological coherence. This can be achieved by establishing synergistic structural and socio-cultural connections within and across the five subsystems of influences underpinning the hub school and networks of innovation-adopting schools, thus bringing forth transformative changes in the system. (As Provided).
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