Contextual Intelligence in School Leadership: Responding to the Dynamics of Change

In Contextual Intelligence in School Leadership the author presents a new leadership construct suitable for the 21st century context of school improvement. He presents school leadership from contextual intelligence perspective as a function of various elements, which interact within the leadership they shape and the context in which such leadership is exercised to exert influence on the core areas of practice, including student learning, teacher development and school-community engagement. The construct represents a departure from the contemporary leadership theories, which place emphasis on separate elements of leadership and inadvertently create a problem of disintegration that does not bode well for sustainable school improvement.

Ramodikoe Nylon Marishane, PhD (2004), University of South Africa, is a Senior Lecture in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria. He has published many articles and book chapters on school leadership, including School Leadership in a Changing Context (Van Schaik, 2011).