{"title":"Compassionate leadership","authors":"A. Harris, Michelle Jones","doi":"10.1080/13632434.2023.2235540","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We are now many months on from the eye of the COVID 19 storm and schools, on the surface at least, look unchanged. It seems to be ‘business as usual’ yet things are far from normal or usual, as overwhelmingly the international evidence shows a crisis in the wellbeing and mental health of many children and young people (Saltzman, Hansel, and Bordnick 2020; Schwartz et al. 2021). In addition, persistent absence from school remains a worrying, ongoing trend in different countries (Elliot Major and Eyles 2022). COVID 19may be over, but its legacy continues. The complexity of the changes required during the pandemic placed a huge pressure upon all leaders. It is well documented that in times of rapid, chaotic change leaders try to recalibrate and re-centre by revisiting their core moral purpose (Fernandez and Shaw 2020). In times of change, leaders tend to ask:","PeriodicalId":47255,"journal":{"name":"School Leadership & Management","volume":"43 1","pages":"185 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"11","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"School Leadership & Management","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2023.2235540","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We are now many months on from the eye of the COVID 19 storm and schools, on the surface at least, look unchanged. It seems to be ‘business as usual’ yet things are far from normal or usual, as overwhelmingly the international evidence shows a crisis in the wellbeing and mental health of many children and young people (Saltzman, Hansel, and Bordnick 2020; Schwartz et al. 2021). In addition, persistent absence from school remains a worrying, ongoing trend in different countries (Elliot Major and Eyles 2022). COVID 19may be over, but its legacy continues. The complexity of the changes required during the pandemic placed a huge pressure upon all leaders. It is well documented that in times of rapid, chaotic change leaders try to recalibrate and re-centre by revisiting their core moral purpose (Fernandez and Shaw 2020). In times of change, leaders tend to ask:
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School Leadership & Management welcomes articles on all aspects of educational leadership and management. As a highly cited and internationally known SCOPUS journal, School Leadership and Management is fundamentally concerned with issues of leadership and management in classrooms, schools, and school systems. School Leadership & Management particularly welcomes articles that contribute to the field in the following ways: Scholarly articles that draw upon empirical evidence to provide new insights into leadership and management practices; Scholarly articles that explore alternative, critical, and re-conceptualised views of school leadership and management; Scholarly articles that provide state of the art reviews within an national or international context; Scholarly articles reporting new empirical findings that make an original contribution to the field; Scholarly articles that make a theoretical contribution which extends and deepens our understanding of the key issues associated with leadership, management, and the direct relationship with organisational change and improvement; Scholarly articles that focus primarily upon leadership and management issues but are aimed at academic, policymaking and practitioner audiences; Contributions from policymakers and practitioners, where there is a clear leadership and management focus. School Leadership & Management particularly welcomes: •articles that explore alternative, critical and re-conceptualised views of school leadership and management •articles that are written for academics but are aimed at both a practitioner and academic audience •contributions from practitioners, provided that the relationship between theory and practice is made explicit.