The Impact of Open Leadership in Being Learning Organisations for Professional Learning

Fahriye Altinay, Lutfiye Fedai, Zehra Altinay, Gokmen Dagli

2017

Abstract

The study examines the impact of being learning organisations in secondary schools culture in fostering professional learning and development. The study sheds a light of qualities of learning organisations to catch change and innovation in digital age. The study has qualitative nature which 26 headmasters become part of the research process voluntarily. The self-reports were employed during the process and thematic analysis was done. Research findings are revealed that headmasters still keep working within the frame of traditional management approach however they reflected that approaching learning organisations is crucial in fostering professional learning. Approaching open leadership and management can be crucial in being learning organisation. In further studies, perceptions and experience of parents, teachers can be examined and experimental studies can be done in detail.

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Altinay F., Fedai L., Altinay Z. and Dagli G. (2017). The Impact of Open Leadership in Being Learning Organisations for Professional Learning . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: FOLSC, ISBN 978-989-758-239-4, pages 732-735. DOI: 10.5220/0006384807320735


in Bibtex Style

@conference{folsc17,
author={Fahriye Altinay and Lutfiye Fedai and Zehra Altinay and Gokmen Dagli},
title={The Impact of Open Leadership in Being Learning Organisations for Professional Learning},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: FOLSC,},
year={2017},
pages={732-735},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006384807320735},
isbn={978-989-758-239-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: FOLSC,
TI - The Impact of Open Leadership in Being Learning Organisations for Professional Learning
SN - 978-989-758-239-4
AU - Altinay F.
AU - Fedai L.
AU - Altinay Z.
AU - Dagli G.
PY - 2017
SP - 732
EP - 735
DO - 10.5220/0006384807320735