"Leadership for Learning" The second in a series of web conferences at SCoPE to engage faculty, educational developers, and administrators in conversations about educational structures and practices for professional development in higher education. http://scope.bccampus.ca/mod/forum/view.php?id=8987
1. Campus-Based Educational Development
Nancy Randall
Honorary Research Associate
Vancouver Island University
We’ll start at 10am PDT.
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3. LEADERSHIP FOR LEARNING: (N= 21)
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Not Identified
LIMITED
IDENTIFIED
ESTABLISHED
0 2 4 6 8
4. ENABLING FACTORS
Personal and professional knowledge, skills
and credibility
Close connection with a senior administrative
mentor
Perceived institutional applicability of TLC
initiatives preferably with direct impact on
institutional strategic plans
Liaising with Faculty Association
Ensuring that TLC representatives participate
in or lead significant institutional initiatives
5. LEADERSHIP FOR LEARNING
ENABLING FACTORS
Director Professional knowledge
1. Organizational change processes
2. Learning literature, issues, trends, pedagogy
3. Provincial, national and international initiatives
Institution specific knowledge
1. Governance structures
2. Institutional history and culture
Director skills
1. Relationship building
2. Ally cultivating
3. Problem solving; consensus-building
4. Strategic planning
Adapted from Schroeder et al. 2011, page 123.
6. INHIBITING FACTORS N=21 MULTIPLE RESPONSES
INVISIBLE
Consultation
SPACE
CULTURE
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TIME
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
7. MODELS OF LEADERSHIP:
•Self-Leadership
•Shared Leadership
•Super Leadership
•Pearce,
C & Jay Conger (Eds.) (2003). Shared Leadership: Reframing
the Hows and Whys of Leadership. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications
Application to study: Leadership in
educational development is a
relational process occurring within a
social context aimed at
accomplishing group and
organizational goals.
8. COMPONENTS OF SELF-LEADERSHIP
Natural reward strategies
Creating motivation and reward, especially that
which allows attention to shift away from
unpleasant tasks
Constructive thought pattern strategies
Envisioning successful performance in advance of
actual performance
9. Shared Leadership
•Distributed and interdependent
•Embedded in social interaction
•Leadership as learning
•Anticipated Outcomes: Mutual learning
Greater shared understanding
•Anticipated Outcome: Positive actions
Adapted from Fletcher &Kaufer, 2003, p. 22-24
10. SUPER LEADERSHIP:
The art of creating and facilitating self-
leadership and shared leadership in
team members.
•Facilitates
use of these skills so that
team members lead themselves
•(Houghton, Neck, Manz, 2003, p.133)
11. REFERENCES
Pearce, C & Jay Conger (Eds.) (2003). Shared
Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of
Leadership. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications
Fletcher, Joyce &KatrinKaufer. (2003). Shared
Leadership: Paradox and Possibility, pages 21-47. in
Pearce & Conger. Eds. 2003. Shared Leadership:
Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership.
Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications
Schroeder, Connie M & Associates. (2011). Coming in
from the Margins: Faculty Development’s Emerging
Organizational Role in Institutional Change. Virginia:
Stylus Publishing.