UNVEILING THE RESTRICTED AND EXTENDED POSSIBILITIES OF DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP
Keywords:
Distributed Leadership, Managerialism, Models of Leadership, System Thinkers in action, Democratic LeadershipAbstract
The scope of this paper is to critically examine the opportunities as well as the fragmentations of the distributed leadership discourse and practices. In other words, this paper is both an argument for as well as a critique of the variety of forms of distributed leadership. Focusing mainly on Spillane’s et al form of distributed leadership and Fullan’s ‘System thinkers in action’, this paper has come to locate perspectives to distributed leadership on a spectrum, varying from ‘extended’ to ‘restricted’ professionalism. Thus, an array of possibilities and restrictions to professionalism emerge that may well be used as a venue for investigating distributed leadership in practice.
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