Hangartner, Judith; Svaton, Carla Jana (2022). Distributed leadership, teacher autonomy, and power relations between headteachers and teachers under low-stakes accountability conditions: An ethnographic account from Switzerland. Research in Educational Administration and Leadership, 7 (2), pp. 247-281. 10.30828/real.1063609
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Distributed leadership is propagated internationally as an effective means to improve teaching and learning in schools. Increasingly it is acknowledged that practices of distributed leadership depend on its context, not only on the school level but also on the larger governing conditions. This article discusses how distributed leadership is put into practice within a “loose” governing regime with low-stakes accountability. The example is taken from Switzerland, where the strengthening of leadership is one of the core instruments of New Public Management reforms, while high-stakes accountability instruments have not been implemented. By taking a governmentality perspective, the article analyses the (self-)governing practices that distributed leadership generates between headteachers and teachers in a primary school. It argues that a “loose” accountability regime produces an opaque field of power relations, in which the self-governing imperative of distributive leadership conflicts with claims of traditional teacher autonomy.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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PHBern Contributor: |
Hangartner, Judith, Svaton, Carla |
ISSN: |
2564-7261 |
Projects: |
[10 s 01 02] Schul-Praxis unter den Bedingungen von "Evaluationsbasierter Steuerung" Official URL
[17 w 0003 01] Führung zur Selbstführung - Eine ethnografische Studie zu schulischen Settings des selbstständigen Lernens Official URL |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Jessica Brunner |
Date Deposited: |
09 Feb 2023 12:00 |
Last Modified: |
08 May 2023 15:02 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.30828/real.1063609 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
leadership, cooperation in school |
PHBern DOI: |
10.57694/6692 |
URI: |
https://phrepo.phbern.ch/id/eprint/6692 |
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