June 2012

Extending the analysis of organizational learning from the communities of practice

The objective of this paper was to expand contributions of studies on organizational learning from the discussions on communities of practice. This is because the occurrence of analysis and studies on communities of practice requires a significant change in the way of observing the processes of learning and knowledge management. For that reason, initially, it was necessary to extend the considerations of communities of...

Author(s): Luciano Mendes and Ligia Maria Soto Urbina

June 2012

Exploring the leadership practice of school leaders: A pilot study

This paper shares preliminary findings from a multi-method study, investigating the leadership practices of educational managers. Early findings show that school leaders do not critically engage with the issues of the larger discourse of education as much as they believe they do. Building from this, two things are argued: first, school leaders would benefit from having an explicit tool that enables them to monitor their...

Author(s): Scott Eacott