Simon Visiting Professors
2011 Simon Visiting Professor: Leif Moos
Professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, and Professor II at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Prof. Moos has for many years been involved in Danish and international research projects on school leadership and related topics, resulting in a number of publications.
He also teaches school leadership and professional development. He is engaged in several international research journals and is President of the European Educational Research Association.
More information, including publications can be found here: http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/moos@dpu.dk
Keynote lecture
Sustaining successful school leadership - research method, theory.
Tuesday 29th March 6-7.30 (tea and coffee from 5.30)
Centre for Educational Leadership, Ellen Wilkinson Building
To reserve a seat email eleri.strittmatter@manchester.ac.uk places limited, book early
Abstract: The 'International Successful School Principal Project' is a five-nation, ten-year research project. We visited 30 schools and observed and interviewed school leaders, teachers, students and parents at several occasions in 2002-4. The idea to revisit the schools in 2009 came when we discussed whether the leaders had been able to sustain the school's success. In order to understand why so many had been successful and how their leadership was brought into relations between teachers and students, we needed to refine and combine theories of leadership, distribution, sense making, decision making processes and deliberation. We also needed to cultivate our understanding of relations between policy makers' need for managerial accountability and student and schools' need for other forms of accountability.