Decentring Leadership

Dr Christine Grice is an Australian educator with over 25 years of teaching and leadership experience in schools and universities. She enjoys supporting educators to connect theory and practice for purposeful leading in her work, and her passion is leading learning. Christine coordinates the Master of Education programs at The University of Sydney, Australia. Dr Susanne Francisco is a researcher and educator with Charles Sturt University, Australia, and an active member of the Pedagogy Education Praxis international research network. Susanne has a focus on professional learning, workplace learning, the learning of teachers (including adult and vocational education teachers), praxis development, and leading learning more broadly. Dr Amanda Lizier is a workplace and professional learning researcher at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She is interested in understanding practices of working, learning, and leading in organisations across industry and education. Driving Amanda’s work is a desire to act as a conduit between theory and practice to inform effective learning at and for work.

Introduction: Decentring the leader and centring the site in education 1. Decentring the leader: using the theory of practice architectures in a postgraduate education course 2. A web of leading for professional learning: leadership from a decentring perspective 3. Leading practices of Steiner school principals: a reflective practice perspective 4. Leading with students: relational focus of leading practices in alternative settings 5. Practising educational leading ‘in’ and ‘from’ the middle: a site ontological view of best practice 6. Decentring pedagogical leadership: educational leading as a pedagogical practice