The leadership of ICT coordinators

A distributed perspective

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21784530
AutoresDavid James Woo (0000-0003-4417-3686, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume51
Fascículo2
Páginas308-323
Data de publicação2023-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEducational Management Administration & Leadership (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1741-1432 • E-ISSN: 1741-1440
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1741143220979714
OpenAlexW3111945791
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas27

Educational leadership is essential to implement information and communications technologies in schools but the leadership practice of information and communications technologies coordinators, a position role that supports teachers to implement information and communications technologies, appears limited. The present study applies a distributed perspective to leadership and investigates aspects of information and communications technologies coordinator context that would facilitate leadership. Twenty-seven information and communications technologies coordinators were surveyed on their schools’ structures and mechanisms that mediate their leadership practice. Descriptive statistics show that a wide range of structures and mechanisms in different quantities and with different qualities can be available to coordinators. The majority of coordinators have neither additional position roles nor a teaching load, but the coordinators have organizational unit assignments and attend daily, routine interactions. A case study illustrates how specific structures and mechanisms would facilitate leadership for information and communications technologies implementation. It is recommended to design an information and communications technologies coordinator role as a formal position role, for a school to employ more than one information and communications technologies coordinator, and to develop an information and communications technologies coordinator’s teaching load, organizational unit assignments and routine interactions according to school needs. Several possible populations of information and communications technologies coordinators are identified for further research

Business · Distributed leadership · Information and Communications Technology · Information system · Information technology · Knowledge management · Leadership studies · Leadership style · Organizational communication · Political science · Public relations · Shared leadership · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Engineering · Online and Blended Learning · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies