Enacting President Trump's leadership contract with educators: toward a communal leadership perspective. (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schechter, Chen
• Is Part Of: Journal of educational administration and history. Volume 50:Number 1(2018)
• Page Start: 32
• Page End: 40
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: Leadership -- communal leadership -- epistemology; School management and organization -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Administration scolaire -- Grande-Bretagne -- Périodiques; 371.2
• DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2017.1405384
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-0620

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article proposes the communal leadership framework as a leverage for reciprocal educational policy in uncertain and turbulent times. It is argued that leadership at the policy level should abandon the seductive dance with the 'self' where knowledge resides at a specific location in the system (policy-makers' perceptions and agendas) for a more holistic, integrated, and collaborative framework – that of communal leadership – in order to develop effective policies suitable for today's fast-changing educational world. This article presents the epistemological premises postulated as upholding the communal nature of leadership, while raising conceptual as well as practical questions in this context.