How might better network theories support school leadership research?

Hadfield, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5361-6875 and Jopling, Michael 2012. How might better network theories support school leadership research? School Leadership & Management 32 (2) , pp. 109-121. 10.1080/13632434.2012.670115

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Abstract

This article explores how recent research in education has applied different aspects of ‘network’ theory to the study of school leadership. Constructs from different network theories are often used because of their perceived potential to clarify two perennial issues in leadership research. The first is the relative importance of formal and informal leadership structures. The second is the extent to which leadership is an individual or a social phenomenon. Network theories have the potential to help leadership researchers tackle these and other issues by identifying how leaders manipulate, and are affected by, a broad range of networks and their structural characteristics. In this article, we argue that by adopting a more structural-pluralist approach to the aspects of network theory used within leadership research a more expansive notion of Leaders' agency can be developed.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) L Education > L Education (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	leadership; networks; agency
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	1363-2434
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 11:06
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/46923

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