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Insights Into Educational Leadership: Perspectives From the United Kingdom

Mon, April 16, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Vancouver Convention Centre, Floor: First Level, West Room 114&115

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Educational leaders conduct their work in challenging times. Global economic and environmental issues increasingly shape the policy context in which education leadership is exercised. This symposium addresses several key policy concerns from the perspective of UK researchers and practitioners, and assesses how educational leaders seek to navigate new and uncharted territory.


The session aims to provide an overview of a range of key issues, as they impact on the work of school leaders from the perspective of those researching and working in the UK education system. All the papers are presented by BELMAS members and the symposium is an expression of BELMAS’s commitment to combine, and link, the work of scholars and practitioners.

Within a context of increasing globalization the consequences of economic and environmental instability are becoming ever clearer. However, the consequences of crisis are playing out quite differently in different national contexts. The aim of this symposium is to explore how key education policy issues are emerging in a UK context, and to assess how these are shaping the work and practices of educational leaders. The papers explore a range of issues, and draw on a range of different methodological approaches.

The session will be based on four, research-based, papers and will be followed by discussion.

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