In the Shadow/From the Shadow The Principal as a Reflective Practitioner in Trinidad and Tobago

This case highlights a school principal’s leading practice as she worked to transform the social and educational status of students, teachers, and community in a small urban primary school. We employ shadowing, a technique popularized in work-based education and photography, as reflective and resear...

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Published inThe Journal of cases in educational leadership Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 215 - 227
Main Authors Bristol, Laurette, Esnard, Talia, Brown, Launcelot
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.09.2015
Subjects
Case Method (Teaching Technique)
Educational Change
Elementary Schools
Foreign Countries
Instructional Leadership
Photography
Principals
Reflection
Trinidad and Tobago
Urban Schools
Trinidad and Tobago
reflective practice
practice architectures
school transformation
leadership
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Summary:This case highlights a school principal’s leading practice as she worked to transform the social and educational status of students, teachers, and community in a small urban primary school. We employ shadowing, a technique popularized in work-based education and photography, as reflective and research tools. Teaching notes provide insight into the implications of shadowing for leadership development and leading learning particularly in the absence of systematic and strategic professional learning for school leaders in Trinidad and Tobago. The literature used here considers understandings of the relationship between the practice architectures of school leading, the reflective practitioner, and school transformation.
ISSN:1555-4589
1555-4589
DOI:10.1177/1555458915593979