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dc.contributor.authorCramp, Andy
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-17
dc.date.available2017-08-17T13:46:03Z
dc.date.issued2016-02-01
dc.identifier.citationCramp, A. (2016). 'Enhancing School Leadership through an International Study Visit'. Professional Development in Education, 42 (5), pp 787-800. doi: 10.1080/19415257.2015.1127271
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/19415257.2015.1127271
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/620600
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the outcomes of a school leadership study visit to India. The research critiques the competency based frameworks common in English leadership development programmes and argues instead, for an approach that challenges assumptions in a fresh context for learning and considers leadership as a process of humanisation. Using Mezirow's 'perspective transformations' as a starting point, the paper briefly outlines what was learned on the visit; but more importantly, the paper focuses on how that learning took place. Activities that proved particularly valuable are discussed. Importantly, the research found that informal opportunities for learning sliding into the spaces around formal events, were often responsible for unexpected and influential perspective transformations and that these opportunities for learning are often undervalued. The research concludes that international study visits where participants agree their own collective agendas and develop a trusted validating community group are more valuable than transmission models of leadership learning. Finally, the paper briefly returns to the notion of leadership as a process of humanisation and suggests that seen in this way, the pursuit of community becomes a more highly valued outcome for leadership learning.
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dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19415257.2015.1127271
dc.subjectSchools
dc.subjectLeadership
dc.subjectReflection
dc.subjectInternational
dc.subjectCommunity
dc.titleEnhancing school leadership through an international study visit
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalProfessional Development in Education
dc.source.volume42
dc.source.issue5
dc.source.beginpage787
dc.source.endpage800
refterms.dateFOA2018-07-18T13:32:13Z
html.description.abstractThis paper explores the outcomes of a school leadership study visit to India. The research critiques the competency based frameworks common in English leadership development programmes and argues instead, for an approach that challenges assumptions in a fresh context for learning and considers leadership as a process of humanisation. Using Mezirow's 'perspective transformations' as a starting point, the paper briefly outlines what was learned on the visit; but more importantly, the paper focuses on how that learning took place. Activities that proved particularly valuable are discussed. Importantly, the research found that informal opportunities for learning sliding into the spaces around formal events, were often responsible for unexpected and influential perspective transformations and that these opportunities for learning are often undervalued. The research concludes that international study visits where participants agree their own collective agendas and develop a trusted validating community group are more valuable than transmission models of leadership learning. Finally, the paper briefly returns to the notion of leadership as a process of humanisation and suggests that seen in this way, the pursuit of community becomes a more highly valued outcome for leadership learning.


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