TY  - JOUR
JF  - Educational Management Administration & Leadership
TI  - Distributed school leadership:Making sense of the
educational infrastructure
AV  - public
KW  - Distributed leadership
KW  -  educational infrastructure
KW  -  sensemaking
KW  -  sensegiving
KW  -  schools
SP  - 138
Y1  - 2023///
N2  - Distributed leadership focuses on what teachers and school leaders do together, but also on how
the situation mediates that interaction. This paper focuses on the importance and function of the
situational dimension of practice. By framing situational aspects in terms of local educational
infrastructure, it explores organizational components in the educational infrastructure and how
they condition teachers? sensemaking about their instructional practice. Two schools in the same
school district in Sweden were purposively chosen to reflect significant variation in student outcomes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, in addition to observations of meetings. The
results show that an important function of the infrastructure is to facilitate and guide teachers?
sensemaking about their instructional practice and that these processes are influenced by the
clarity of the school?s vision and the principal?s use of the infrastructure for sensegiving purposes.
The outcome is an argument for studying school leadership through the lens of organizational
components in the educational infrastructure
PB  - Sage Pub
A1  - Pa¨r, Larsson
VL  - 51(1)
EP  - 156
ID  - iab_repo1369
UR  - http://eprints.iab.edu.my/v2/1369/
ER  -