RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Damiani, Jonathan
T1 Engaging students in school leadership: Creative approaches to empowerment
JF Journal of Exceptional People
YR 2014
VO 3
IS 1
SP 65
OP 81
UL https://jep.actavia.cz/artkey/jep-201401-0006.php
AB This study examines how principals take their lead from students, and use student voice, to create more inclusive and responsive schools, and more responsible models of leadership. I consider issues of student agency and voice within four different public school settings. Further, I consider the challenges all students face, and the ways principals are preparing to address these challenges. In this study I address roadblocks to responsive leadership in urban, suburban, and rural schools using a cogenerative qualitative approach that principals, students, and researchers can use to create new dialogue and shared theories focused on improving both administrative function and the instructional programs of their schools. This approach has revealed a new shared theory which includes young students of various abilities in models of school leadership. Central to this theory is a call for principals and researchers to use more student-driven approaches, so that students can be empowered as learners and leaders in their own right.