Conference paper
Shared Communication during the Professional Experience Program: A Distributed Leadership Perspective
Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Catholic Educational Leadership, pp.1-9
International Conference on Catholic Educational Leadership: Directions for Educational Leadership in the 21st Century, 4th (Sydney, Australia, 29-Jul-2007–01-Aug-2007)
Australian Catholic University
2007
Abstract
This paper explores the concept of distributed leadership in the context of a teaching and learning project conducted at the Australian Catholic University (ACU), School of Education, McAuley Campus. In this context, distributed leadership is associated with building relationships that are authentic, genuine, caring, and empowering. Within this teaching and learning project, a website was developed, using the university's Learning Management System (Blackboard), in order to facilitate multi-dimensional communication involving pre-service teachers, the university coordinator and their visiting supervisors. The topic of this communication was the pre-service teachers' experience of teaching in school contexts as part of their Professional Experience Program (PEP). After the completion of their professional experience in schools, pre-service teachers completed a survey of their perceptions of the support provided through Blackboard. More than 50 percent of the pre-service teachers completed this online survey. The results describe the nature, extent, and type of relationships that can be established during this professional experience. It is particularly interesting that these results suggest the possibility of modelling distributed leadership to pre-service teachers in their teaching program.
Details
- Title
- Shared Communication during the Professional Experience Program: A Distributed Leadership Perspective
- Authors
- Anne Drabble (Author) - Australian Catholic UniversityE Harris (Author) - Australian Catholic UniversityP Hanifin (Author) - Australian Catholic University
- Contributors
- T D'Arbon (Editor)
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Catholic Educational Leadership, pp.1-9
- Conference details
- International Conference on Catholic Educational Leadership: Directions for Educational Leadership in the 21st Century, 4th (Sydney, Australia, 29-Jul-2007–01-Aug-2007)
- Publisher
- Australian Catholic University
- Date published
- 2007
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2007. Reproduced here with permission.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education - Legacy; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450133402621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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