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Melville, Wayne; Peacock, Jeremy – Electronic Journal of Science Education, 2017
This article draws together Narrative Positioning Analysis and a Bourdieuian perspective to investigate the relationship between the position of the chair, their disposition towards reforms, and the impact on departmental learning. Our analysis indicates two major conclusions. First, there is a disconnect between chairs' leadership dispositions…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Departments, Instructional Leadership, Educational Change
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Melville, Wayne; Jones, Doug; Campbell, Todd – School Leadership & Management, 2014
This article considers a secondary science department that has, since 2000, developed distributed leadership as a form of human capacity building. Using a longitudinal ethnographic case study allowed us to consider how distributed leadership can be nurtured and developed in a department. Our analysis centres on two key issues: the nature and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Secondary School Science, Participative Decision Making