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- Vol 6 RE: Chapter 14
sustainable leadershipleadership successiondistributed responsibilityorganisational capacitysocial justicesystem resilienceresource stewardshipeducational improvementBook Evidence summaryAt a glance
Hargreaves and Fink argue that educational leadership should improve learning in ways that endure, spread responsibly, and do not damage people or neighbouring systems. Their seven principles propose that sustainable leadership matters, lasts, spreads, is socially just, is resourceful, promotes diversity, and engages actively with the surrounding environment.
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Improvement should preserve worthwhile learning across leadership succession, develop capacity beyond a few exceptional individuals, and avoid exhausting teachers or transferring costs to other schools and communities. Distributed responsibility can strengthen continuity, but only when supported by learning, trust, time, and coherent structures. Diversity of ideas and practices helps systems adapt, whereas standardisation and rapid turnover can undermine resilience. Leaders must consider long-term consequences, not just short-cycle performance indicators or visible innovations.
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The framework is normative and case-informed rather than a controlled causal model. Its practical value lies in asking who benefits, what resources are consumed, whether capability remains after leaders leave, how change affects the wider system, and whether improvement can be renewed without becoming dependent on unsustainable pressure.
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