Future-Ready Leadership Development

Abstract

This chapter re-examined how school leaders prepare students for the future. New ways of looking at effective schools involved a deeper understanding of the contexts and the time dimensions. These dimensions pose a significant challenge to the learning of students to be future-ready. School leadership development needs to emphasise on how leaders learn to adapt to the challenges and their ability to create favourable conditions for student learning. The need to shift from faculty and course-driven learning to leader-centred learning is long overdue. Complexity theory-based design leadership development is proposed as an alternative to current provision of leadership development. Concepts of non-linearity, self-organising and emerging learning parallel the principles of leadership for learning. Future-ready leadership programmes must focus on creating new and emerging knowledge and draw knowledge from the process of learning rather than predetermining the outcome of learning.