What is it about?
When people go from being one member of staff to getting the responsibility of e.g. a course, program or project, it is not always obvious how this process involves development of a new role: that of educational leadership. This paper is an exploration of what it means to become an educational leader in medical education and offers a framework for important aspects included in developing educational leadership, rather than just taking on the administrative role of managing a course.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that educational leadership involves a process involving four dimensions: leading development, enabling learning, creating a learning environment and creating bridges and networks. Thus, educational leadership is made explicit as an approach to an academic role which too often has been viewed as purely administrative.
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In my role of working with educational development in higher education I have in this article systematically explored educational leadership as a way to better understand and improve how we can support educational leaders.
Dr Klara Bolander Laksov
Stockholm University
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This page is a summary of: Becoming an educational leader – exploring leadership in medical education, International Journal of Leadership in Education, January 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13603124.2015.1114152.
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