Students' perceptions of leadership in Educational leadership course

A joint research project between three universities (UEF, HY and JY) examines students' different perceptions of leadership from data collected in the beginning of educational leadership course. The study takes a phenomenographic and discursive approach to students' perceptions of distributed leadership and pedagogical leadership.  

The students participating in the study represent participants in continuing education in educational leadership course, as well as graduate students, some of whom already have work experience at their school level and some of whom do not.  We will examine how students representing different levels of education,  early childhood education, primary education and secondary education, understand distributed and pedagogical leadership and how their potential work experience affects their perceptions. The results of the research can be utilised in the development of leadership studies in the field of education, both in undergraduate education and in-service training.