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dc.contributor.authorClarke, Simon
dc.contributor.authorStevens, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:18:28Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:18:28Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2010-11-03T07:04:52Z
dc.identifier.issn13892843
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10833-008-9076-8
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/30334
dc.description.abstractAccording to Hargreaves and Fink (The seven principles of sustainable leadership, 2003; Sustainable leadership, 2006), sustainable leadership matters, spreads and lasts, and is fundamental to enduring and widespread school improvement. This observation is especially germane to the context of leading small primary schools in rural locations, where challenges encountered by principals in engaging with the complexities of continuous improvement are often accentuated. This article looks at the applicability of certain aspects of sustainable leadership to the circumstances surrounding small rural schools. First, reasons are given for devoting attention to the specific context of leadership in small rural primary schools, especially in Australia. The article then examines the distinctive challenges encountered by principals of small rural schools that appear to compound the difficulties of pursuing sustainable leadership. The next section draws from a Queensland study (Clarke and Stevens, Small schools leadership study. Leading and teaching in small schools: confronting contextual complexity in work practices, 2004) that has generated vignettes depicting the complexity of novice teaching principals' work in rural environments. Taking cognizance of Hargreaves and Fink's analysis of sustainable leadership, selections from these vignettes are used to sharpen understandings of ways in which sustainable leadership plays out in this context and the factors that either promote or impede its development.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom277
dc.relation.ispartofpageto293
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Educational Change
dc.relation.ispartofvolume10
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSpecialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSpecialist Studies in Education
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode130399
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1303
dc.titleSustainable leadership in small rural schools: Selected Australian vignettes
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.rights.copyright© 2009 Springer Netherlands. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
gro.date.issued2009
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorStevens, Elizabeth M.


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