Siclitaru Alexandru
Leadership and Social Change in Education. From a Dystopian p.o.v.
I belive that Leadership and social changes had happened in education past the years. Recent research shows that: the leadership that makes a difference is both position based (principal) and distributive (administrative team and teachers) but both are only indirectly related to student outcomes; OL, or a collective teacher efficacy, is the important intervening variable between leadership and teacher work and then student outcomes; leadership contributes to OL, which in turn influences what happens in the core business of the school - the teaching and learning. It influences the way students perceive teachers organise and conduct their instruction, and their educational interactions with, and expectations for, their students; The “trend towards decentralisation acknowledges that the dynamic for transformational change in schools must come increasingly from within the school community.” (OECD, 2001b, p. 47) However, we find that there are different degrees or models of decentralisation in different countries as well as for different functions. A common approach has been to localise delivery while centralising mandated standards. (OECD, 2001b) In “some countries, notably the United Kingdom and the United States, contracting of educational services has become part of a movement to create a clearer division between those who specify services and those who deliver them.” (OECD, 2001b, p. 21) In Korea the focus of educational policy has been shifted from provider-oriented education to consumer and/or learneroriented education and Austria is aiming to shift from ‘administration’ to ‘service’ and to orient management more to outcomes.