School Leaders as Progress Makers: Opening a New Vista for School Leadership in Mauritius
Keywords:
Progress makers; School leadersAbstract
This small scale study aims at exploring how far school leaders
consider themselves progress makers. This is felt important as there is
now much emphasis on schools to be more successful in terms of both
academic and socio-economic outcomes. The challenge lies in knowing
how to make it happen. A qualitative research was conducted.
Furthermore, this article expands current knowledge on school
leadership by reporting data gathered from a group of school leaders
(n=6) who were mandated during their course in educational leadership
to explore new vistas in school leadership and be pioneers as progress
makers. Data gathered by means of a semi-structured interview, was
analysed using the conceptual framework developed by Clampitt and
DeKoch (2011)1 on transforming leaders into progress makers. The main
findings illustrate how school leaders struggle to come to terms with the
various strategies and tactics associated with progress makers. The
study's implications for future practice and training of school leaders are
also considered. The authors hint that school leaders can become
progress makers, that is, that metamorphosis can occur, if they consider
leading differently and use new leadership practices.
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