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A web of leading for professional learning - leadership from a decentring perspective
Halmstad Univ, Sch Educ Humanities & Social Sci, Halmstad, Sweden..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9293-0445
Frida Educ, Vanersborg, Sweden..
Univ Gothenburg, Dept Pedag Curricular & Profess Studies, Gothenburg, Sweden..ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6488-7438
2023 (English)In: Journal of Educational Administration & History, ISSN 0022-0620, E-ISSN 1478-7431, Vol. 55, no 1, p. 23-38Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Research shows that leadership is crucial for professional learning, often highlighting principals' or middle leaders' leading practices. However, in leading, professions with differing roles work together. With a decentring perspective on leadership, we shift the focus from the individual principal or middle leader to joint leading practices. Based on a practice theoretical perspective, this article explores how educational leadership unfolds in shared leading practices in a Swedish case where professional learning is led by principals, middle leaders, and an external development leader. The findings visualise a web of practices focusing on understanding roles, changing structures and changing content for professional learning. The shared leading practices are enabled by shared ideas, different positions, and common arenas for communication, but constrained by simplified assumptions and exclusion of teachers. In this web, single dilemmas are handled in different practices from differing perspectives, with changes in plans for professional learning as an outcome.

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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD , 2023. Vol. 55, no 1, p. 23-38
Keywords [en]
Decentring leadership, leading practices, practice architectures, ecologies of practices, shared leadership
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Pedagogy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-68936DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2022.2114433ISI: 000846700000001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85136455465OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-68936DiVA, id: diva2:1911771
Available from: 2024-11-08 Created: 2024-11-08 Last updated: 2025-10-10Bibliographically approved

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