Page 5 - Leadership Basics Educative Leadership

Foreword

This Leadership Basics is about a paradigm of leadership known as educative leadership. Being an
educative leader is essential because, as most school leaders would agree:
The purpose of school leadership is to improve learning and all members of the school community
are considered to be learners.
The paradigm of educative leadership applies equally to leaders in big corporations, such as Shell,
Microsoft, and Sony as it does to primary or secondary schools. Educative leadership is NOT simply
about improving instruction or teaching; the most successful organisation is the one that is able to
‘learn’. In the corporate world of private enterprise, this learning has to be ‘faster’ than an
organisation’s competitors and ensure that the organisation stays abreast of the rapidly changing
knowledge of the information age. In schools educative leadership is about ensuring that learning is
focused on continuously improving student outcomes, whilst at the same time ensuring that these
outcomes align with the values of the day, are in tune with current knowledge, and are culturally
relevant.
In this Leadership Basics we will explore three dimensions of Educative Leadership:

1. Authentic leadership

2. Cultural leadership

3. Pedagogical or instructional leadership

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