Future Perspectives on School Leadership and Globalisation

Abstract

The paper presents three possible 'futures' and 6 scenarios for schools that are elaborated in the OECD report published as a book entitled What Schools for the Future? in 2001 and its sequel in 2003 Networks of Innovation. Towards New Models for Managing Schools and Systems. These different visions are compared and archetypes of the types of leaders that each of them might require are proposed. The implications for developing such managers to meet the demands of varying future scenarios are then considered. Finally, the question to what extent these visions are globally relevant is explored and whether globalisation of educational policy and practice itself is a desirable future.