Educational Leadership and ICT Implementation in Israeli Arab Sector – towards a Model of Hybrid Leadership

Abstract

The present article discusses the concept of hybrid leadership in the context of the educational leadership in ICT implementation in Israeli Arab sector. In the Arab sector in Israel, where the school system has always been patriarchal, authoritarian, and strictly hierarchical, developing a hybrid school leadership represents a particularly interesting, important and beneficial challenge. The discussion evolves from analyzing the qualitative findings obtained from interviews conducted with 12 stakeholders: principals, teachers, ICT coordinators and external coordinators. The analysis and interpretation of the findings brought to introducing of the “hybrid model” of educational leadership that includes four components: (1) hybridity as open-minded thinking; (2) hybridity as proficiency at managing e-spaces and blended environments; (3) hybridity as openness to multiple databases of knowledge and multidisciplinary thinking; (4) hybridity as communal responsibility.

Keywords

• hybrid leadership
• educational digital leadership
• ict reform implementation
• principal-as-ict-leader