Building sustainable leadership in education: theoretical and practical insights
ENThe paper deals with the phenomenon of sustainable leadership in education which is defined as long-term perspective and change oriented leadership which involves different groups of schools community and in shared learning and collaboration based activities aimed for school improvement and continuity of ideas and best practice and creating value for all stakeholders of educational system. It comes with the idea of shared leadership and focus on system – oriented sustainable changes. The practical insights of building sustainable leadership are derived from the qualitative study based on focus group discussions held during the national project on leadership in general education. The content analysis applied allows discerning the meaningful categories of sustainable leadership manifestation in education, to disclose the ways informants perceive this phenomenon and to reveal different levels of impact these targeted activities of leadership development had on the stakeholders of educational system.
