Tensions in the distribution of leadership in a school's ICT reform

What is it about?

When leadership for a school ICT reform is distributed among various levels of leaders in a school, systemic tensions arise due to clashes with existing social norms or division of labour. It is important to be able to identify these tensions and to analyse how individuals attempt to minimise these tensions, enabling the reform to evolve, while changing some social norms or the division of labour.

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Why is it important?

We normally assume that distributed leadership is positive and unproblematic. While distributed leadership is positive, there may be disruptions to existing social norms/division of labour. It is important to understand and be able to identify these disruptions and the corresponding tensions so that we can work towards minimising or balancing these tensions. From a research perspective, it is important as Activity Theory is seldom used to analyse the concept of distributed leadership, although AT is claimed as the origins of DL.