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- Title
Micropolitical Insights into Assistant Regional Directors' Leadership in Queensland Education.
- Authors
BLOXHAM, RAY; EHRICH, LISA C.; IYER, RADHA
- Abstract
The position of Assistant Regional Director, School Performance (ARD-SP) was established by the Department of Education and Training (DET), the government provider of public education in Queensland, in 2010, to improve student learning across Queensland by providing close supervision of principals. Based on interviews with 18 ARDs-SP and two of their immediate supervisors, this article explores their views about this relatively new position and their understandings of the role. Following Blase and Anderson (1995), it uses micropolitical leadership theory to analyse comments made by the participants. A key finding was a view of leadership based on a differentiated supervision model whereby ARDs-SP worked with principals to ensure they met the corporate agenda. Participants' comments favoured a leadership approach that was both adversarial (drawing upon power over and power through) and facilitative (drawing upon power through and power over) and for those principals deemed under-performing, an authoritarian leadership approach was apparent.
- Subjects
EDUCATIONAL leadership; PUBLIC education; SCHOOL principals; SCHOOL supervision; EDUCATIONAL change
- Publication
Leading & Managing, 2014, Vol 20, Issue 1, p32
- ISSN
1329-4539
- Publication type
Article