Leaders Seeking Resonance: Managing the Connectors that Bind Schools

Autor/in	Walker, Allan
Titel	Leaders Seeking Resonance: Managing the Connectors that Bind Schools
Quelle	In: International Journal of Leadership in Education, 15 (2012) 2, S.237-253 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-3124
DOI	10.1080/13603124.2011.626079
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Instructional Leadership; Principals; Leadership Responsibility; Interpersonal Relationship; World Views; Cultural Differences; Holistic Approach; Individualism; School Culture; Physical Environment; Social Networks; Figurative Language; Medicine; Non Western Civilization; High Stakes Tests; China; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Principal; Schulleiter; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; World view; Weltanschauung; Kultureller Unterschied; Holistischer Ansatz; Individualismus; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Natürliche Umwelt; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Medizin; USA
Abstract	This commentary focuses on school leadership as connective activity. Leadership is essentially about designing, managing and energizing the right connections, and untying the wrong ones, in order to make schools successful, equitable, happier places. The author's basic proposition is that school leaders who influence students and their communities positively are not those who focus just on secluded patches of their organizational turf, but leaders who consciously make connections within, across and beyond it. The article is divided into three major sections. In the first section, the author discusses what he means by connection. To do this, he draws partly on notion of resonance, and the metaphor of reflexology. In the second section, he applies this metaphor to schools and school leadership; and teases out briefly some parallels between reflexology and leadership. In the third section, he suggests that the job of a leader is to simultaneously connect, reconnect and disconnect within, across and beyond the school. In this section, he attempts to capture and illustrate some of the connective activities which form such an important part of school leadership. The foundational connective activity is that of defining purpose. (Contains 5 tables.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10