Boundary Breaking: An Emergent Model for Leadership Development

Authors

Charles Webber

University of Calgary

Jan Robertson

University of Waikato

Abstract

We summarize the results of a cross-cultural on-line project for graduate students in educational leadership at the University of Calgary in Canada and the University of Waikato in New Zealand. A conceptual framework for the collaborative Internet project is presented in conjunction with a summary of relevant literature and participant views of the project. Finally, the authors propose a model for on-line graduate learning in educational leadership with the following components: construction of meaning, provision of a forum for discussion, validation of personal knowledge, generative learning, formal and informal leadership, sense of community, and international perspectives.

Author Biographies

Charles Webber

University of Calgary

Charles F. Webber is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary. His teaching and research focus on school culture, the role of the principal, and international trends in educational leadership. He facilitates the Change Agency Network http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~cll/CAN/frameset.htm and edits the International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~iejll/

Jan Robertson

University of Waikato

Jan M Robertson is the Director of the Educational Leadership Centre http://www.soe.waikato.ac.nz/elc and a Senior Lecturer in the Professional Studies Department at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Her teaching, research and development focuses on action research methodology, appraisal and leadership development of teachers and principals, and the role of the principal in site-based management nationally and internationally. She initiated a listserver discussion group primarily for networking New Zealand school leaders http://www.soe.waikato.ac.nz/elc/electnetwork.html based on the Change Agency model.

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