TOWARDS A CONCEPTUAL MODELLING OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Abstract

Modern educational systems are organized around patterns of leadership, which is
considered a crucial element for their existence and cope with future change. In the
current study, the new roles of leadership in contemporary education organizations are
being asserted. Nowadays, the demands for a transformational-type of leadership
inside a highly effective steering pattern are rising. At the same time, the need to
incorporate ICT into the upper level functions of the hierarchy is obvious.
What are the specific traits a leader has to possess in order to manage successfully an
educational organization? What is principle-centered leadership and why is it
appropriate for school principals? How can a novel leadership scenario foster
innovation and performance and at the same time liberate schools from the tyranny of
formal learning? What is the role of ICT artifacts along that process?
The new generation of school leaders is called to answer these questions
convincingly. To this aim, it has to redesign a cohesive vision based on student
achievement and collaboration, to align all available resources (including curriculum,
instruction and assessment). At the same time it should respect cooperate culture,
sustain sub-systems, manage budgets, promote capacity learning and tune the whole
structure towards excellence and high performance. This does sound, surely, as a
challenging task.