Developing effective college leadership for the management of educational change

Analyses the concept of leadership as a vital ingredient of educational success within the context of the turbulent changes taking place within further education. In defining leadership, and identifying those who are the leaders in achieving educational excellence, argues for a model of distributed leadership. Such an approach should be concerned with seeking transformational change leading to a total quality education approach. This in turn should contribute to college effectiveness in improving teaching and learning and the management of educational change. Within the shared leadership model, it is argued that middle managers are also leaders. They are managing diversity, within a rapidly changing environment, and are taking forward multiple innovations. Suggests that this is one approach towards building the generic capacity to manage educational change in the further education sector through the development of leadership talent at all levels.

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