Leading educative governance together: imagining new futures for principals and school governance

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 7:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Policy Implementation and Governance in Educational Leadership

Abstract

School Board Chairs and Principals have significant responsibility to nurture, assure, and sustain school success in their work together, and yet there is little empirical research into the nature or effectiveness of the relationship between them. This research investigates the dynamics of school Chair/Principal relationships and how they contribute to the success of their schools, by examining how Chairs and Principals navigate educative governance. A practice theory framework has been used to investigate Principal/Chair dynamics within and between people in intersubjective spaces (Kemmis et al., 2014) for this large-scale qualitative project involving a rapid literature review and policy audit, 82 interviews and three case studies. Our findings support opportunities for reimagining governance beyond strategic and generative governance to educative governance.

Authors

• Christine Grice, University of Sydney

• Christopher W. Day, University of Nottingham

• Virginia Moller, University of Sydney