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Research Seminar: Responsive Leadership
A seminar from Dr Livia Jesacher-Roessler from the University of Innsbruck. Everyone is welcome to attend and booking is not required.
In Austria, several new reforms have led to a multitude of complex demands placed on school leaders and teachers. Each school responds differently and experiences more or less upheaval as it begins the transition. Led by the questions of how sustainable innovative changes took place in schools and why schools with similar context variables (see Ball et al. 2012) enact new policies differently, this paper will present findings from a qualitative study conducted in Austria. The results were analyzed using a deductive analysis based on categories resulting from the theoretical framework developed by Gaertner et al. (2017).
Preliminary findings show that although the schools have similarities in their context variables, the eleven school leaders named different legitimacy sources (e.g., school authorities, parents) depending on their school’s particular institutional logics (Thornton, Ocasio, & Lounsbury 2012). This paper presents a condensed framework to indicate different responses from leaders of the organizations and discusses different enactment and change processes.
Hosted by the Durham University Evidence Centre for Education Thematic Research & Scholarship Cluster
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