The leadership of ICT coordinators

A distributed perspective

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21784530
AutoresDavid James Woo (0000-0003-4417-3686, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen51
Número2
Páginas308-323
Fecha de publicación2023-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEducational Management Administration & Leadership (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1741-1432 • E-ISSN: 1741-1440
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1741143220979714
OpenAlexW3111945791
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias 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