BC educational leadership research eJournal
Issue 9.
aPRIL 2007
TEACHERS AS LEADERS
From the editor’s desk: Guest Editor Dr. P. Taylor Webb
The Practice and Politics of Teacher Leadership
This issue of the BC Educational Leadership Research Ejournal examines the idea of educational leadership broadly and the idea of teacher leadership specifically. The three articles within provide readers with an opportunity to engage in issues of professional development, subject matter knowledge, and contemporary issues of educational control and power. The articles raise important questions about the promise of teacher leadership as the idea relates to specific forms of content knowledge and content practices. From this perspective, educational leadership, and teacher leadership specifically, holds the promise of an emancipatory pedagogy aimed at eliminating the bureaucratic mechanisms that prevent continuous professional development opportunities in schools. In this sense, who knows best about the specific content needs of students? And, how should these folks be supported at the school? The final article directly examines the implications of these leadership tensions and concludes that if meaningful collaboration is really the goal between school practitioners and educational bureaucracies then a concerted effort is needed to stop engaging in forms of exclusive politics.
The editors at the Ejournal hope you enjoy this issue and welcome suggestions for future topics.
P. Taylor Webb, Ph.D.
Guest Editor
BC Educational Leadership Research Ejournal
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Barbara Hill
Reading Recovery Teacher Leader, Langley School District
Allyson Matczuk
Reading Recovery Teacher Trainer, Western Canadian Institute of Reading Recovery
Dale Severyn
Reading Recovery Teacher Leader, Vancouver School District |
Literacy Leadership: Building Capacity On-site
[download article]
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Michael Iachetta
Classroom Teacher, Delta School District
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Making Collaboration Meaningful: A Call for Systematic Reform
[download article]
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Maureen D. Neumann
Assistant Professor, University of Vermont
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Becoming Facilitative Leaders:
Teachers Providing Professional Development in Mathematics
[download article]
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Barbara Hill
Allyson Matczuk
Dale Severyn
Literacy Leadership: Building Capacity
On-site
[download article]
Michael Iachetta
Making Collaboration Meaningful: A Call for Systematic Reform
[download article]
Maureen D. Neumann
Becoming Facilitative Leaders:
Teachers Providing Professional Development in Mathematics
[download article]
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