How distributed leadership enhances students’ cooperation skills: The mediating effects of extracurricular activities and students’ attitudes

• In Event: Roundtable Session 10
  In Refereed Roundtable Session: Strengthening Schools through Participation: Leadership Models, Community Monitoring, and Student Support Reforms

Proposal

Cooperation skills are crucial social and emotional competencies that drive the devel-opment of students’ social abilities, problem-solving capabilities, and adaptation to future societal demands. This study investigates the mediating effects of extracurricular activities and students’ attitudes on the relationship between distributed leadership and students’ cooperation skills, using data from Jinan, China, collected as part of the Or-ganization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Social-Emotional Compe-tence Survey Study (SSES) of adolescents. Structural equation modeling was employed to explore the impact of distributed leadership on students’ collaborative competence and its underlying mechanisms. The findings indicate that:(1) distributed leadership has a direct positive predictive effect on students’ cooperation skills;(2) distributed lead-ership positively enhances students’ cooperation skills through the mediation of ex-tracurricular activities and students’ attitudes, respectively;(3) extracurricular activities and students’ attitudes do not have a chained mediating effect between distributed leadership and students’ cooperation skills. This study suggests that schools should implement the concept of distributed leadership to build an educational community, diversify extracurricular activities to support the holistic development of young people, and respect students’ subjectivity to foster positive attitudes toward school.

Authors

• Wenqi Peng, Department of Education，East China Normal University

• Hong Zhang

• Hanwei Tang

• Qianyu Zhou