1st Edition
Decentring Leadership Rethinking Leading in Education Contexts
Introduction: Decentring the leader and centring the site in education
Christine Grice, Amanda Lizier and Susanne Francisco
1. Decentring the leader: using the theory of practice architectures in a postgraduate education course
Ann Reich and Amanda Lizier
2. A web of leading for professional learning: leadership from a decentring perspective
Jaana Nehaz, Veronica Sulau and Anette Olin
3. Leading practices of Steiner school principals: a reflective practice perspective
Virginia Moller
4. Leading with students: relational focus of leading practices in alternative settings
Fiona Longmuir
5. Practising educational leading ‘in’ and ‘from’ the middle: a site ontological view of best practice
Christine Edwards-Groves, Peter Grootenboer, Kirsten Petrie and Zeffie Nicholas
6. Decentring pedagogical leadership: educational leading as a pedagogical practice
Christine Grice, Anette Forssten-Seiser and Jane Wilkinson
Biography
Dr Christine Grice is an Australian educator with over 25 years of teaching and leadership experience in schools and universities. She enjoys supporting educators to connect theory and practice for purposeful leading in her work, and her passion is leading learning. Christine coordinates the Master of Education programs at The University of Sydney, Australia.
Dr Susanne Francisco is a researcher and educator with Charles Sturt University, Australia, and an active member of the Pedagogy Education Praxis international research network. Susanne has a focus on professional learning, workplace learning, the learning of teachers (including adult and vocational education teachers), praxis development, and leading learning more broadly.
Dr Amanda Lizier is a workplace and professional learning researcher at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She is interested in understanding practices of working, learning, and leading in organisations across industry and education. Driving Amanda’s work is a desire to act as a conduit between theory and practice to inform effective learning at and for work.
