TY - JOUR
AU - Beauchamp, Gary
AU - Joyce-Gibbons, Andrew
AU - Clarke, Linda
AU - Hulme, Moira
AU - Hamilton, Lorna
AU - Harvey, Janet A.
PY - 2023
DA - May
TI - Conceptualising headteachers’ leadership of technology in schools across the United Kingdom during early COVID
JO - Management in Education
DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/08920206231172603
AB - The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic brought seismic changes to schooling which few could have anticipated. Across the four countries of the UK, (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) urgent changes to the locus and focus of education were required. This paper conceptualises how headteachers led their schools in the use of digital technology as they adjusted to teaching and learning in the early stages of a UK wide school ‘lockdown’. The study uses data from extensive interviews with the headteachers of 12 schools across all phases of learning in schools in all four countries in the UK. The analysis uses elements of Cashman's et al.'s (2014) ‘leadership by convening’ lenses to conduct a threefold analysis of the transcripts: the direction of communications (internal/external); the timeframes (synchronous/asynchronous); and headteachers’ perceptions of how their digital technology helped them navigate challenges. These challenges are classified as: (a) technical – The solution required technology or technical expertise; (b) adaptive – The solution required a change in behaviour by at least one party in the communication process (internal or external); (c) organisational – solutions to these challenges contained both a technological and a behavioural component. A new model of leadership with technology is suggested.
PB - SAGE Publications
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/5ba15c8a-4a49-455e-aeb0-dcd73a527afe
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Education
KW - Digital health and technology
ER