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Australian Considerations in Relation to Instructional Leadership and Leadership for Learning

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Instructional Leadership and Leadership for Learning in Schools

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This chapter considers Australian research about leadership and learning. It begins with a review of instructional leadership and leadership for learning from research outside of Australia. The next section provides a range of sources of information about the study of school leadership in Australia and includes a review of successful school leadership and descriptions of three major ongoing research projects and two review papers. In terms of the concepts of instructional leadership or leadership for learning, there is not much specific support for either concept in the Australian literature. However, there is a concern to explore how leadership influences student learning, and there are many examples of small and large projects that are doing this and which contribute to the global study of this important topic.

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Gurr, D. (2019). Australian Considerations in Relation to Instructional Leadership and Leadership for Learning. In: Townsend, T. (eds) Instructional Leadership and Leadership for Learning in Schools. Palgrave Studies on Leadership and Learning in Teacher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23736-3_4

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