A trouble to my dreams’. A reflection on leadership typologies in education: in search of regaining the ‘sparkling trail of light’
FORUM - ISSN 0963-8253
Volume 66 Number 2 (2024)
A trouble to my dreams’. A reflection on leadership typologies in education: in search of regaining the ‘sparkling trail of light’
Anonymous pages 90-102
DOI: 10.3898/forum.2024.66.2.11
Abstract
In considering how to bring joy back to education and the curriculum in England, I argue that it is also necessary to bring the joy of teaching back to classroom practitioners. A fundamental contribution to this may be leadership typologies employed by schools’ senior leadership. As an experienced secondary English teacher, over the last 20 years I taught at schools in which my experiences of being led – just prior to, and then under, the education reforms introduced to promote the ‘knowledge-rich’ approach1 – were very different. This article reflects on my experiences of contrasting leadership-styles, and of educational leadership on a national scale, through the metaphorical lens of one of the poems I taught for GCSE English literature. My aim is to consider how leadership can be successful, sustainable and inspiring of joy.
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Anonymous (2024) A trouble to my dreams’. A reflection on leadership typologies in education: in search of regaining the ‘sparkling trail of light’, FORUM, 66(2), 90-102. https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2024.66.2.11