Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 46 Issue 2

The future of distributed leadership

Peter Gronn

This paper aims to assess the empirical utility and conceptual significance of distributed leadership.

Functionally adequate but causally idle: w(h)ither distributed leadership?

Gabriele Lakomski

The purpose of this conceptual paper is to argue that leadership, including distributed leadership, is a concept of folk psychology and is more productively viewed as an emergent…

Distributed leadership: according to the evidence

Alma Harris

This paper aims to provide an overview of the literature concerning distributed leadership and organisational change. The main purpose of the paper is to consider the empirical…

Taking a distributed perspective: Epistemological and methodological tradeoffs in operationalizing the leader‐plus aspect

James P. Spillane, Eric M. Camburn, James Pustejovsky, Amber Stitziel Pareja, Geoff Lewis

This paper is concerned with the epistemological and methodological challenges involved in studying the distribution of leadership across people within the school – the…

The relationship between distributed leadership and teachers' academic optimism

Blair Mascall, Kenneth Leithwood, Tiiu Straus, Robin Sacks

The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between four patterns of distributed leadership and a modified version of a variable Hoy et al. have labeled “teachers'…

Distributed leadership: democracy or delivery?

Andy Hargreaves, Dean Fink

This article aims to discusses the nature and benefits of lateral approaches to educational change, especially in the form of distributed leadership, that treat schools…

Forging the links between distributed leadership and educational outcomes

Viviane M.J. Robinson

Several arguments have been put forward about why distributed leadership in schools should contribute to the improvement of teaching and learning. This paper aims to investigate…

Distributed leadership through the looking glass

Alma Harris