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Leadership for Learning

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Instructional Leadership

Introduction

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other” is a quotation John F. Kennedy prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination. Leadership and learning have meanwhile also been quoted as an indispensable pair in the context of schooling. However, there is a long way between a president’s vision and the transfer of school leadership into classroom learning. This entry addresses the challenge of how leadership can influence student learning.

In recent times, great effort has been dedicated to bringing leadership into closer contact with student learning. The terms leading and learningbelong to different domains of educational research and the pedagogical discourse, and they are associated with different actors in the educational arena. Leadership is characterized by the fact that people are ‘led’ to interact in certain settings so as to perform according to the desired aims or to undertake certain tasks. Learning, on...

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  1. Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Michael Schratz

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  1. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Michael A. Peters

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  1. Stockholm University, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden

    Niclas Rönnström

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Schratz, M. (2022). Leadership for Learning. In: Peters, M.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Teacher Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1179-6_481-1

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