The Nature of School Leadership by Paul W. Miller

Author:Paul W. Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

The Issue in Context: Identifying Entrepreneurial School Leadership

Although it is easy to assume entrepreneurial school leadership is a new or different type of leadership, it is important to note that it is not. Rather, it is an aspect of leadership more fully engaged by some school leaders than others (context and personal factors dependent), but an aspect that has increasingly moved up the list of attributes and skills required for existing and aspiring school leaders in both developing and developed countries. This is because the market culture in education is here to stay and school leaders, like it or not, need to be able to manage and lead successfully in this culture . Hentschke (2009) notes, “Schools are more like businesses and their leaders are more like business leaders—for better or worse” and “Entrepreneurial leadership in education sits at the nexus of a relatively old, established topic (entrepreneurial leadership) applied to a relatively novel setting (compulsory education)” (p. 149). Woods, Woods and Gunter (2007) define entrepreneurial leadership as[T]he predisposition to and practice of achieving valued ends by creating, taking or pursuing opportunities for change and innovation and finding new resources or utilising in new ways existing resources (financial, material and human). (p. 237)

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