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EJ411706 EA524599
Title: Teacher Leadership: Tensions and Ambiguities in Organizational Perspective.
Author(s): Smylie, Mark A.; Denny, Jack W.
Source: Educational Administration Quarterly, v26 n3 p235-59 Aug 1990
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Evaluative (142)
Journal Announcement: CIJDEC1990
Presents findings of a study exploring teacher leadership roles in a metropolitan K-8 school district. Results show that the development and performance of these roles are mediated by their organizational contexts. Teacher leadership should be approached as an organizational development issue rather than solely as an individual empowerment issue. Includes 50 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education; *Leadership; *Organizational Development; *Role Conflict; *School Organization; *Teacher €} Participation
Identifiers: Empowerment; *Role Ambiguity
