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Beyond the power of one : redesigning the work of school principals
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posted on 2006-10-01, 00:00 authored by P Thomson, Jillian BlackmoreJillian BlackmoreThere is mounting international research evidence that the work of school principals is increasingly difficult, time consuming and more unattractive to prospective applicants. We suggest that the solution to this situation lies in redesigning the work that principals do. Using the New London Group’s (1996) definition of design as both process and product and as a hybrid of existing resources, we offer five cases of redesign: distributed pedagogical leadership, co-principalship, shared principalship, multi-campus principalship, and community-based principalship. We argue that these examples show that redesigns that focus on the school, rather than on the work of the principal, have more far-reaching effects, but are also much more vulnerable to context. We propose three emerging principles for redesign viz. developing a strong warrant for redesign, attending to infrastructure and building organic relations between school and community.
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Journal of educational changeVolume
7Issue
3Pagination
161 - 177Publisher
Springer NetherlandsLocation
Delft, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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1389-2843eISSN
1573-1812Language
engNotes
Published online: 25 August 2006Publication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2006, Springer Science + Business MediaUsage metrics
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