Towards democratic leadership. Co-principal initiatives

Leadership capacity in teams

“…The first is anchored in a formal relationship in which, for example, the role incumbents exercise co-or joint authority. A good example of the dynamics of shared role space is co-principals in schools (Court, 2003;Gronn & Hamilton, 2004). The second may be either a formally or informally grounded relationship across hierarchical levels as in the case of school principals or their deputies (Nias, 1987), managers and their immediate subordinates (Krantz, 1989), between organizational heads and campus or branch heads (Gronn, 1999), or between adjacent role incumbents, such as chairpersons and chief executives (Chityayat, 1985;Stewart, 1991a,b).…”

On democracy and leadership: from rhetoric to reality

“…Vieno et al (2005) refer to student participation in making rules and organizing events, freedom of expression, and fairness of rules and of teachers as basic democratic school practices; additional characteristics include school rules as statements of principles as well as differential treatment practices rather than a 'one-size-fits-all' approach to student discipline. In this paper, although I refer to issues underpinning student participation and citizenship, I build on a broader notion of a democratic school as a dialogic school that allows a multitude of voices to be heard (Court 2003). In this regard, I attempt to address the two questions posed by Sidorkin (1999): 'Are different groups' views considered and are different individual meanings about teaching and learning explored within open and trusting dialogues?'…”

Isolated cases or widespread practice? The occurence of sharing managers in Swedish working life

“…Despite the fact that this leadership occurrence has largely been non-existent in research literature there are business specific exceptions which include studies and theory development concerning co-principalship and distributed leadership within the education sector (e.g. Court, 2003;Eckman, 2006;Gosling, Bolden, & Petrov, 2009;Gronn & Hamilton, 2004), and studies of shared leadership and partnerships within health care (e.g. Casanova, 2008;Fallis & Altimier, 2006;Rosengren & Bondas, 2010;Steinert, Goebel, & Rieger, 2006).…”