Distributed Leadership

The most effective leaders ensure that leadership is distributed throughout their organizations. This new addition to the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education explains why and how. "Distributive Leadership" is a new concept in education.

Auteur

JAMES SPILLANE is professor of human development and social policy and learning science at Northwestern University.

Texte du rabat

Distributed Leadership explores how leadership practice takes shape in the interactions between leaders, followers in their situation. A distributed perspective on leadership provides a lens for generating insights into how leadership is practiced, helping practitioners think about and approach their work in new ways. James Spillane, the leading expert in "Distributed Leadership," shows how leadership happens in everyday practices in schools, through formal routines and informal interactions. He examines the distribution of leadership among administrators, specialists, and teachers in the school, and explains the ways in which leadership practice is stretched over leaders, followers, and aspects of the situation, including routines and tools of various sorts in the organization such as memos, scheduling procedures, and evaluation protocols.

The book provides an overview of what it means to take a distributed perspective on leadership, an examination of various uses of the term, a summary of the most current research, illustrative examples, and helpful guidelines.

Résumé
James Spillane, the leading expert in Distributed Leadership, shows how leadership happens in everyday practices in schools, through formal routines and informal interactions.

Contenu

Acknowledgments ix

The Author xiii

1. The Nature of the Beast 1

2. The Leader-Plus Aspect 29

3. The Practice Aspect 53

4. A Distributed Perspective on and in Leadership Practice 87

References 105

Index 113