![[PDF]](/pb-assets/Icons/adobe-pdf-icon-1498649896243.png){kind=icon}
Abstract
This article presents a review of current leadership practices of principals in further education colleges and suggests that principalship is more than a two-dimensional functional model comprising internal or externally focused activities. During the past 20 years further education leadership has become more demanding, with greater accountability imposed by a state-controlled system and, as Hargreaves and Fink (2005) suggest, this has impacted on the number of individuals entering senior leadership posts. In light of these changes it is appropriate to review the role of the principal and what is known about the way the role has changed. As a result of the way in which principalship has evolved, this article introduces a tri-dimensional model of principalship − first by reflecting on leadership practices of college principals and identifying the key elements of their role, and second by suggesting that college principalship compasses three theoretical aspects: a public, an internal–public and an internal–private.
References
|
Austen, S, Swepson, P, Marchant, T (2012) Governance and school boards in non-state schools in Australia. Management in Education 26(2): 73−81. Google Scholar | SAGE Journals | |
|
Ball, S (2009) The governance turn! Journal of Education Policy 24(5): 537–538. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Clancy, J (2005) Future shortage at the top. Times Educational Supplement 29th April. Google Scholar | |
|
Collinson, D (2009) Researching Self-regulation in FE Colleges. Coventry: Learning and Skills Improvement Service. Google Scholar | |
|
Collinson, D, Collinson, M (2006) Communities of Leadership. Lancaster: Lancaster University. Google Scholar | |
|
Davis, S, Darling-Hammond, L, LaPointe, M, Meyerson, D (2005) School Leadership Study: Developing Successful Principals (Review of Research). Stanford, CA: Stanford University, Stanford Educational Leadership Institute. Google Scholar | |
|
Elliot, G (1996) Educational management and the crisis of reform in further education. Journal of Vocational Education and Training 48: 5−23. Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Frearson, M (2003) Tomorrow’s Learning Leaders. London: Learning and Skills Network. Google Scholar | |
|
Goddard-Patel, P, Whitehead, S (2000) Examining the crisis of further education: An analysis of ‘failing’ college and failing policies. Policy Studies 23(3): 191−212. Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Gravatt, J (2010) Classification of colleges. Personal communication, 7 September. Google Scholar | |
|
Green, F (2000) The Headteacher in the 21st Century: Being a Successful School Leader. London: Prentice Hall. Google Scholar | |
|
Hargreaves, A, Fink, D (2005) Sustainable Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Google Scholar | |
|
Harper, H (2000) New college hierarchies? Towards an examination of organisational structures in further education in England and Wales. Educational Management Administration and Leadership 28(4): 433−445. Google Scholar | SAGE Journals | |
|
Kennedy, H (1997) Learning Works: Widening Participation in Further Education. Coventry: FEFC. Google Scholar | |
|
KPMG (2009) Delivering Value for Money Through Infrastructure Changes. London: KPMG LLP. Google Scholar | |
|
Lambert, S (2012) The challenges and resolutions of moving middle curriculum managers onto principalship. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Hull, UK: University of Hull. Google Scholar | |
|
Leithwood, K, Seashore-Louis, K, Anderson, S, Wahlstrom, K (2004) How Leadership Influences Student Learning. New York: The Wallace Foundation. Google Scholar | |
|
Lumby, J, Tomlinson, H (2000) Principals speaking: Managerialism and leadership in further education. Research in Post-Compulsory Education 5(2): 139−151. Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Morrison, K (2006) Marx, Durkheim, Weber. Formations of Modern Social Thought. London: SAGE. Google Scholar | |
|
Payne, L (2008) The Evidence Base on College Size and Mergers in the Further Education Sector. DIUS Research Report 08 19. London: Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills. Google Scholar | |
|
Randle, K, Brady, N (1997) Further education and the new managerialism. Journal of Further and Higher Education 21: 229–239. Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Sala, F (2003) Leadership in education: Effective U.K. college principals. Nonprofit Management and Leadership 14(2): 171−189. Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Wilkinson, G (2007) Civic professionalism: Teacher education and professional ideals and values in a commericalised education world. Journal of Education and Training 33(3): 379−395. Google Scholar |
