Editorial: Educational leadership on the threshold of a post-pandemic world
Schools, colleges and universities after Covid-19
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Educational leadership on the threshold of a post-pandemic world
Schools, colleges and universities after Covid-19
This special issue of the BERA Blog explores the new perspectives on, and possibilities for, educational leadership that have been opened up by the Covid-19 crisis.
Focusing on schools and on higher and further education providers in England and Scotland, the issue’s contributors develop the concept of post-pandemic leadership and the shapes it might take in future. They discuss how all aspects of education – school accountability, technology-enhanced learning, peer dialogue and support, and school leadership itself – have been, or should be, reassessed and reimagined for the better.
Post-pandemic: Return or reset?
Crisis management in schools has been examined and modelled in a variety of ways, and it is possible to identify four discrete stages through which school leaders progressed during the pandemic...
Obstacles to opportunities: Towards a model of school improvement through Appreciative Inquiry
School improvement has always been high on school leaders’ agendas in England, but the pandemic has shone a light on new and emerging priorities. As well as the many problems that need to be...
The strategic leadership of online learning during Covid and beyond: Key themes from an emerging study
Covid-19 has had an enormous impact on education. The changes to working practices, leaders’ vision for the future of education and the relationship between senior leaders, staff, parents and...
Leading in a complex world: Enabling leadership practices to support innovation, change and resilience
Academic leaders in higher education (HE) have faced a sustained period of unprecedented and complex change due to Covid-19. Leadership capability and adaptability has been tested, and there have...
College leadership in a time of Covid-19: Learning to distribute leadership, learning to listen?
Often teams will show you the right direction from being honest, because in a pandemic there was so much to do from a leadership point of view, and it was overwhelming at times because everything...
Leaderless leading: How the pandemic has unleashed a collective impetus to ‘rethink’ further education
‘There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.’ Wheatley, 2002 The above quote appears in a boxed feature in the inaugural edition of #JoyFE...
School leadership in a time of Covid: Learning to cope with the system changes
It is indisputable that there are huge costs associated with Covid-19, and part of that has fallen to schools, school trusts (formerly known as multi-academy trusts) and local...
Series editors
Azumah Dennis, Dr
Lecturer at The Open University
Carol Azumah Dennis has worked in higher education since 2010, first at the University of Hull where she was employed initially as a lecturer in education and programme director for post-16 teacher education, and later as programme director for...
Lindsay Johnstone, Miss
Assistant Headteacher at Manchester Metropolitan University
Lindsay Johnstone has worked in secondary schools for 19 years, 10 years as a middle leader and seven years as a senior leader. She is now working in a higher education institution supporting degree apprentices in achieving their leadership and...
Deb Outhwaite, Dr
Director at University of Liverpool
Deb Outhwaite has worked in education for 30 years. She has taught and examined at A-level, spent a decade teaching undergraduate and postgraduate education programmes. She is Director of Developing Teachers, Schools and Academies (DTSA), and is...
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Post-pandemic: Return or reset?
Crisis management in schools has been examined and modelled in a variety of ways, and it is possible to identify four discrete stages through which school leaders progressed during the pandemic...
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College leadership in a time of Covid-19: Learning to distribute leadership, learning to listen?
Often teams will show you the right direction from being honest, because in a pandemic there was so much to do from a leadership point of view, and it was overwhelming at times because everything...
Continue reading blog postLeading in a complex world: Enabling leadership practices to support innovation, change and resilience
Academic leaders in higher education (HE) have faced a sustained period of unprecedented and complex change due to Covid-19. Leadership capability and adaptability has been tested, and there have...
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Leaderless leading: How the pandemic has unleashed a collective impetus to ‘rethink’ further education
‘There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.’ Wheatley, 2002 The above quote appears in a boxed feature in the inaugural edition of #JoyFE...
Continue reading blog postObstacles to opportunities: Towards a model of school improvement through Appreciative Inquiry
School improvement has always been high on school leaders’ agendas in England, but the pandemic has shone a light on new and emerging priorities. As well as the many problems that need to be...
Continue reading blog postSchool leadership in a time of Covid: Learning to cope with the system changes
It is indisputable that there are huge costs associated with Covid-19, and part of that has fallen to schools, school trusts (formerly known as multi-academy trusts) and local...
Continue reading blog postThe strategic leadership of online learning during Covid and beyond: Key themes from an emerging study
Covid-19 has had an enormous impact on education. The changes to working practices, leaders’ vision for the future of education and the relationship between senior leaders, staff, parents and...
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Editorial: Educational leadership on the threshold of a post-pandemic world
Schools, colleges and universities after Covid-19
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