Leadership Transformations
Effect of Educational Administration's Changing Context on Postgraduate Educational Administration Programs: Globalization, Knowledge Society, Learner Centered Leadership and Educational Administration Postgraduate Programmes
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Gokhan Ofluoglu, Sibel Buzkan
Among the major powers building the contemporary context of educational and school leadership; learner centered leadership, picking the research evidences and decision making upon the data, increasing competition and school selection, system oriented social integration, globalization and phenomenon of knowledge society can be counted. This leadership requires having analytical skills, coping with the increasing competition phenomenon and school selection, achieving concern for system oriented society. In this context in this paper, the impacts of these powers building the educational administration context on the preparation of the educational and school leaders for their tasks especially the impacts on the doctoral programmes of educational administration field was discussed. Personnel interviews and questionnaires were conducted with trainers about the subject. Consequently, it is inevitable to review the doctoral programs that train educational and school leaders in terms of goal, content, and teaching style contexts, and quality them according to requirements of new context. Based on these developments, the educational and school administrator training policies of each country educational system should be changed according to the requirements of the field and modernized.
Future of Work as it Relates to the Purpose of Schooling
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Sara Ratner
Major corporations such as Deloitte, KPMG, Mitchell Institute and the Foundation for Young Australians are investing significant time and money into researching the future world of work. Through their work, and the work of others, it has become apparent that our schools are not currently producing the work force needed for this new world. This research contributes to the debate by examining the relationship between the future of work and the purpose of schooling. The research adopts a relational approach to examine how the visualised future of work relates to schooling. What is the purpose of schooling as it relates to the future of work? How do our Education systems need to change in order to meet the needs of our new way of working?
Principal Leadership of Career and Technology Foundations Curriculum
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Leonard Sproule
The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore what principals currently know about the Career and Technology Foundations (CTF) curriculum and ascertain how the principal's understanding of CTF serves to influence their instructional leadership decisions. Sense making perspectives were applied to examine the principal’s understanding of the CTF program of study and the decisions they make as instructional leaders. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with principals who chose to implement CTF during the 2016-2017 school year. Results from this study support that the principal’s understanding of curriculum influences a range of effects between instructional leadership decisions and the pedagogical practices of teachers. By focusing on curriculum-specific variables that principals consider prior to enacting instructional leadership decisions, this study expands upon existing action- and behavior-oriented conceptualizations of instructional leadership. With provincial curricula for all subjects and grade levels scheduled for redesign by the start of the 2022-2023 school year, the results of this study may also serve to inform future directions for the provision of professional learning supports for school and district leaders across Alberta.
