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Original Articles

The problem of distributed leadership in schools

Pages 249-265 | Published online: 11 Jan 2007

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Tony Kinder, Jari Stenvall, Frédérique Six & Ally Memon. (2021) Relational leadership in collaborative governance ecosystems. Public Management Review 23:11, pages 1612-1639.
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Joonkil Ahn, Alex J Bowers & Anjalé D Welton. (2021) Leadership for learning as an organization-wide practice: evidence on its multilevel structure and implications for educational leadership practice and research. International Journal of Leadership in Education 0:0, pages 1-52.
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Sonja Sentočnik, Gregory C. Sales & Jayson W. Richardson. (2018) Educational reform in Georgia: recommendations for building leadership capacity as a critical success factor for instructional change. International Journal of Leadership in Education 21:6, pages 651-668.
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Auxiliadora Sales, Lidón Moliner & Andrea Francisco Amat. (2017) Collaborative professional development for distributed teacher leadership towards school change. School Leadership & Management 37:3, pages 254-266.
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Wendy Fasso, Bruce Allen Knight & Ken Purnell. (2016) Distributed leadership of school curriculum change: an integrative approach. School Leadership & Management 36:2, pages 204-220.
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Tracey Carlyon. (2015) Teacher transition between year levels in primary schools: an opportunity for continuing professional development. Professional Development in Education 41:3, pages 563-578.
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Karen E. Starr. (2014) Interrogating conceptions of leadership: school principals, policy and paradox. School Leadership & Management 34:3, pages 224-236.
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Anthony Blake & Gail Edwards. (2013) From Hope & Glory to Waterloo Road: mediating discourses of ‘crises’ surrounding schools and schooling in British television drama, 1999–2011. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 34:5, pages 784-798.
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Deirdre Torrance. (2013) Distributed leadership: challenging five generally held assumptions. School Leadership & Management 33:4, pages 354-372.
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Hasan Hariri, Richard Monypenny & Murray Prideaux. (2012) Principalship in an Indonesian school context: can principal decision-making styles significantly predict teacher job satisfaction?. School Leadership & Management 32:5, pages 453-471.
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Giuliano Reis & Ranilce Guimaraes-Iosif. (2012) The Death and Life of a School-Based Environmental Education and Communication Program in Brazil: Rethinking Educational Leadership and Ecological Learning. Applied Environmental Education & Communication 11:3-4, pages 123-132.
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Joseph Flessa. (2009) Educational Micropolitics and Distributed Leadership. Peabody Journal of Education 84:3, pages 331-349.
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David Hartley. (2009) Education policy, distributed leadership and socio‐cultural theory. Educational Review 61:2, pages 139-150.
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Simon Blakesley. (2008) Remote and unresearched: educational leadership in Canada's Yukon Territory. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 38:4, pages 441-454.
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Jorge Ávila de Lima. (2008) Department networks and distributed leadership in schools. School Leadership & Management 28:2, pages 159-187.
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Tristan Bunnell. (2008) The Yew Chung model of dual culture co‐principalship: a unique form of distributed leadership. International Journal of Leadership in Education 11:2, pages 191-210.
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David Hartley. (2007) THE EMERGENCE OF DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION: WHY NOW?. British Journal of Educational Studies 55:2, pages 202-214.
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David Mayrowetz, Joseph Murphy, Karen Seashore Louis & MarkA. Smylie. (2007) Distributed Leadership as Work Redesign: Retrofitting the Job Characteristics Model. Leadership and Policy in Schools 6:1, pages 69-101.
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Chris Turner. (2006) Subject leaders in secondary schools and informal learning: towards a conceptual framework. School Leadership & Management 26:5, pages 419-435.
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Jonathan David Jansen. (2006) Leading Against the Grain: The Politics and Emotions of Leading for Social Justice in South Africa. Leadership and Policy in Schools 5:1, pages 37-51.
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Anne Storey. (2004) From performance management to capacity-building: an escape from the cul de sac?. The Curriculum Journal 15:3, pages 207-218.
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Abdullah DAĞ & Bayram BOZKURT. (2023) Dağıtımcı Liderlik ile Algılanan Örgütsel Destek Arasındaki İlişkiThe Relationship between Distributive Leadership and Perceived Organizational Support. Mersin Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi 19:2, pages 289-307.
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Joonkil Ahn, Yinying Wang & Yujin Lee. (2023) Interplay between leadership and school-level conditions: A review of literature on the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). Educational Management Administration & Leadership, pages 174114322311778.
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Elif Dasci Sonmez & Tuba Gokmenoglu. (2022) The Impact of Principals’ Distributed Leadership Behaviors on Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Multiculturalism: Social Justice Leadership as Mediator. Education and Urban Society 55:4, pages 433-462.
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Hasan KAVGACI & Ayhan ÖZTÜRK. (2023) How Distributed Leadership and Teachers’ Psychological Capital Influence Turnover Intention? Understanding The Mediating Role of Trust in Principal and Work Engagement. Participatory Educational Research 10:1, pages 190-212.
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Halil İbrahim SEVİM & Ahmet KAYA. (2022) Okullardaki Dağıtımcı Liderlik İle Örgütsel Mutluluk Arasındaki İlişkiThe Relationship Between Distributive Leadership and Organizational Happiness in Schools. Uluslararası Liderlik Çalışmaları Dergisi: Kuram ve Uygulama 5:2, pages 86-106.
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Anne-Christine Rosfeldt Lorentzen. (2022) Digital transformation as distributed leadership: Firing the change agent. Procedia Computer Science 196, pages 245-254.
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Denise Mifsud. 2022. The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse. The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse 1073 1098 .
Hamid Reza Bidkhori, Ahmad Reza Bahrami, Shadi Mehrzad, Hamed Bakhshi, Rahele Miri, Mohammad Reza Hedayati‐Moghaddam, Bardia Shabani, Halimeh Hasanzadeh, Majid Danaee, Seyed Aliakbar Shamsian, Arash Akhavan‐Rezayat, Parisa Mohebbi, Farahnaz Rohani & Maryam M. Matin. (2020) Communication barriers between basic scientists and clinicians in regenerative medicine: A qualitative study from Iran. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 27:4, pages 799-808.
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Jean A. Patterson, Hala AlSabatin, Amber Anderson, Martyna Klepacka, John Lawrence & Bradford Miner. (2020) A Distributed Leadership Perspective on Implementing Instructional Reform: A Case Study of an Urban Middle School. Journal of School Leadership 31:3, pages 248-267.
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Denise Mifsud. 2020. The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse. The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse 1 26 .
Hairul Azman Mohd Hata, Mohamed Yusoff Mohd Nor & Aida Hanim A. Hamid. (2020) The Influence of Distributed Leadership on Teachers’ Competency in Secondary School. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development 9:4.
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André du Plessis & Jan Heystek. (2019) Possibilities for distributed leadership in South African schools: Policy ambiguities and blind spots. Educational Management Administration & Leadership 48:5, pages 840-860.
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Malechwanzi J. Muthiani. 2018. Predictive Models for School Leadership and Practices. Predictive Models for School Leadership and Practices 308 327 .
Leon de Bruin. 2018. Creativity Policy, Partnerships and Practice in Education. Creativity Policy, Partnerships and Practice in Education 167 191 .
Denise Mifsud. (2016) Distribution dilemmas. Educational Management Administration & Leadership 45:6, pages 978-1001.
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Jeanne Ho & David Ng. (2016) Tensions in Distributed Leadership. Educational Administration Quarterly 53:2, pages 223-254.
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Andrew Francis & Thomas Bisschoff. 2016. Followership in Action. Followership in Action 143 150 .
Lokman Mohd Tahir, Sui Liang Lee, Mohammed Borhandden Musah, Hadijah Jaffri, Mohd Nihra Haruzuan Mohamad Said & Mohd Hanafi Mohd Yasin. (2016) Challenges in distributed leadership: evidence from the perspective of headteachers. International Journal of Educational Management 30:6, pages 848-863.
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Meng Tian, Mika Risku & Kaija Collin. (2015) A meta-analysis of distributed leadership from 2002 to 2013. Educational Management Administration & Leadership 44:1, pages 146-164.
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Denise Mifsud. (2015) The setting-up of multi-site school collaboratives: The benefits of this organizational reform in terms of networking opportunities and their effects. Improving Schools 18:3, pages 236-249.
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Kelzang Tashi. (2015) A quantitative analysis of distributed leadership in practice: Teachers’ perception of their engagement in four dimensions of distributed leadership in Bhutanese schools. Asia Pacific Education Review 16:3, pages 353-366.
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Denise Mifsud. (2015) Circulating power and in/visibility: layers of educational leadership. Journal of Workplace Learning 27:1, pages 51-67.
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Michèle Garant & Caroline Letor. 2014. Encadrement et leadership. Encadrement et leadership 183 202 .
Jacky Lumby. (2013) Distributed Leadership. Educational Management Administration & Leadership 41:5, pages 581-597.
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Geert Kelchtermans & Liesbeth Piot. 2013. Back to the Future. Back to the Future 93 114 .
David Ng Foo Seong & Jeanne Marie Ho. (2012) How leadership for an ICT reform is distributed within a school. International Journal of Educational Management 26:6, pages 529-549.
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Ali Ibrahim & Shaikah Al-Taneiji. (2012) Principal leadership style, school performance, and principal effectiveness in Dubai schools. International Journal of Research Studies in Education 2:1.
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Tracey Carlyon & Anthony Fisher. (2012) What Informs Primary School Principals' Decision-Making in Relation to Teacher Placement in Class Levels?. Australian Journal of Education 56:1, pages 68-82.
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Tristan Bunnell. 2012. The Management and Leadership of Educational Marketing: Research, Practice and Applications. The Management and Leadership of Educational Marketing: Research, Practice and Applications 87 106 .
Angela M. Benson & Deborah Blackman. (2011) To distribute leadership or not? A lesson from the islands. Tourism Management 32:5, pages 1141-1149.
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Richard Bolden. (2011) Distributed Leadership in Organizations: A Review of Theory and Research. International Journal of Management Reviews 13:3, pages 251-269.
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Necati Cemaloğlu. (2011) Primary principals' leadership styles, school organizational health and workplace bullying. Journal of Educational Administration 49:5, pages 495-512.
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David Hartley. (2010) Paradigms: How Far Does Research in Distributed Leadership ‘Stretch’?. Educational Management Administration & Leadership 38:3, pages 271-285.
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David Hartley. (2010) Distributed Leadership According to the Evidence. Educational Management Administration & Leadership 38:1, pages 138-140.
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Gerri Maxwell, Jim Scheurich & Linda Skrla. (2009) Distributed Leadership Includes Staff: One Rural Custodian as a Case. Journal of School Leadership 19:4, pages 466-496.
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Deirdre Torrance. (2009) Distributed leadership in Scottish schools. Management in Education 23:2, pages 63-70.
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Alma Harris. 2009. Distributed Leadership. Distributed Leadership 11 21 .
David Mayrowetz. (2008) Making Sense of Distributed Leadership: Exploring the Multiple Usages of the Concept in the Field. Educational Administration Quarterly 44:3, pages 424-435.
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Alma Harris. (2008) Distributed leadership: according to the evidence. Journal of Educational Administration 46:2, pages 172-188.
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Alma Harris, Kenneth Leithwood, Christopher Day, Pam Sammons & David Hopkins. (2007) Distributed leadership and organizational change: Reviewing the evidence. Journal of Educational Change 8:4, pages 337-347.
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