Role of Leadership in Student Learning Process

Abstract

In the current context of global education reform, however, recent inquiries have focused on identifying how teams of school leaders contribute to school improvement and student learning. Over the years the research and theory of leadership and its role and impact on student learning showcase an increasing level of support for the Fifty years of theory and research offer increasing levels of support for claiming that it makes a different that principal leadership makes a difference in the quality of schooling, school development, and student learning. The research of the current chapter extends its finding by offering support for a more refined conception that casts the role and impact of leadership on student learning as a process and also its real meaning. The research findings of the literature review conceptualize a holistic and collective area of leadership in the student life. The current paper aims to define leadership individually and also in its relation to the student learning process.