TY - JOUR
T1 - Learning the theory, improving the practice?
T2 - A case study of award-bearing leadership training among college principals from Bangladesh
AU - Jarvis, Adrian
AU - Judge, Simranjeet
PY - 2021/9/22
Y1 - 2021/9/22
N2 - Award-bearing transnational professional development training has received little attention in the literature. By taking a longitudinal mixed-methods approach, this project's researchers investigated the ways in which participants on a World Bank-funded programme practised leadership at the start of their training, before revisiting them a year later to find out what, if any, changes had resulted. It was discovered that the award-bearing design had been very influential in endowing the participants with concepts that they enthusiastically adopted, but that, over time, the concepts had undergone a process of simplification, largely driven by incongruities between the concepts and the cultural environments to which they had been applied. It is recommended that award-bearing programmes might more readily take into account the individual and contextual circumstances of their participants at the planning stage.
AB - Award-bearing transnational professional development training has received little attention in the literature. By taking a longitudinal mixed-methods approach, this project's researchers investigated the ways in which participants on a World Bank-funded programme practised leadership at the start of their training, before revisiting them a year later to find out what, if any, changes had resulted. It was discovered that the award-bearing design had been very influential in endowing the participants with concepts that they enthusiastically adopted, but that, over time, the concepts had undergone a process of simplification, largely driven by incongruities between the concepts and the cultural environments to which they had been applied. It is recommended that award-bearing programmes might more readily take into account the individual and contextual circumstances of their participants at the planning stage.
KW - leadership preparation
KW - principles
KW - Bangladesh
KW - instructional leadership
KW - continuous professional development training
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85115603811&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/08920206211033286
DO - 10.1177/08920206211033286
M3 - Article
JO - Management in Education
JF - Management in Education
SN - 0892-0206
ER -