Distributed leadership: taking a retrospective and contemporary view of the evidence base

IF 2.8 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2022-10-20 DOI:10.1080/13632434.2022.2109620

A. Harris, Michelle Jones, Nashwa Ismail

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Distributed leadership is one of the most influential and well-discussed ideas to emerge in the field of educational leadership. Prompted by the foundational and seminal work of Spillane et al. (2001) the idea of shared or ‘stretched’ leadership that incorporates both formal and informal leaders, has been of interest to researchers, policy-makers practitioners and educational reformers around the globe. Distributed leadership has captured the attention of many international researchers and as this article will show, has been the focus of a great deal of empirical enquiry. This article looks at the two decades of research that followed the pivotal Spillane et al. (2001) article on distributed leadership. Firstly, it takes a retrospective view by drawing upon selected literature from 2001 to 2011 mapping out the main findings based on this empirical terrain. Secondly, it offers a contemporary view by exploring recently selected literature on distributed leadership from 2011 to 2021. The article does not claim to be a systematic review of the literature but rather, offers some insights into selected evidence over two decades. The article considers how far distributed leadership remains a relevant concept for those working within the field of educational leadership.

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分布式领导:对证据基础的回顾和当代观点

分布式领导是教育领导领域中最具影响力和讨论最多的思想之一。在Spillane等人(2001)的基础和开创性工作的推动下，包括正式和非正式领导的共享或“延伸”领导的概念已经引起了全球研究人员、政策制定者、实践者和教育改革者的兴趣。分布式领导已经引起了许多国际研究人员的注意，正如本文将展示的那样，分布式领导已经成为大量实证研究的焦点。本文着眼于Spillane等人(2001)关于分布式领导的关键文章之后二十年的研究。首先，通过选取2001年至2011年的文献进行回顾，在这一实证地形的基础上绘制出主要发现。其次，它通过探索最近选择的2011年至2021年分布式领导的文献，提供了一个当代的观点。这篇文章并没有声称是对文献的系统回顾，而是对20年来选定的证据提供了一些见解。本文考虑分布式领导在多大程度上仍然是教育领导领域内工作的相关概念。

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