ABSTRACT

This paper connects two (seemingly) parallel discourses in the field of educational leadership: the discourse on adaptive leadership or ‘adaptivity’, which has been appropriated into the field of education, and social justice educational leadership. Without overlooking the real differences between them, the paper identifies four principles central to both discourses. Both leadership types are claimed to be disruptive, dilemmatic, collaborative, and contextual-emergent. A model for connecting the two discourses around these four shared principles is presented. Some key concerns regarding the likelihood of connecting the two discourses will be addressed, particularly by discussing the compatibility of ‘effectiveness’ to ‘social justice’. The paper concludes with a discussion of ‘communities of practice’, as an example of an adaptive-social justice organizational structure that realizes the above four shared principles.

摘要

本文将教育领导领域中的两个（看似）平行的话语联系起来：关于适应性领导或“适应性”的话语，已被挪用到教育领域，以及社会正义教育领导。在不忽视它们之间真正差异的情况下，本文确定了这两种话语的四个核心原则。两种领导类型都声称具有破坏性、两难性、协作性和情境性。提出了围绕这四个共享原则连接两个话​​语的模型。将解决关于将两种话语联系起来的可能性的一些关键问题，特别是通过讨论“有效性”与“社会正义”的兼容性。本文最后讨论了“实践社区”，作为实现上述四个共享原则的适应性社会正义组织结构的一个例子。