Leadership Learning in Initial Teacher Education (LLITE)

King, F., McMahon, M. , Roulston, S. and Nguyen, D. (2020) Leadership Learning in Initial Teacher Education (LLITE). Project Report. The Standing Conference on Teacher Education, North and South.

Abstract

This report provides results from the establishment of a new collaborative working group of three colleagues from the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland who sought to conduct a study on leadership learning across three respective systems. The study titled “Leadership Learning in Initial Teacher Education (LLITE)” began on 1st September 2018. Leadership in this study refers to “the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it, and the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives” (Yukl, 2013, p.23). An important distinction is made between leadership and learning and learning for leadership (i.e., preparation for an imminent or future leadership role). Leadership learning is concerned with developing the professional knowledge and skills to make sense of the leadership that newly qualified and early career teachers will experience and see enacted in schools. It also aims to enable teachers to develop the leadership knowledge and skills necessary to practise leadership within their classrooms and in the wider school community as part of their collaborative professional practice (Hargreaves and O’Connor, 2017; King and Stevenson, 2017).

• Item Type: Research Reports or Papers (Project Report)
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: McMahon, Professor Margery and Nguyen, Dr Dong
• Authors: King, F., McMahon, M., Roulston, S., and Nguyen, D.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Professional Learning and Leadership ; College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Educational Leadership & Policy
• Publisher: The Standing Conference on Teacher Education, North and South
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2020 The Authors
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced with the permission of the Authors