Starting a slow burn…
So I’m lurking on the edge of leadership in education at the moment and I need to start reflecting on the range of ideas, challenges, impressions, imperatives, impulses and subversive thinking that is part of reality at the moment.
Why lurking? In a previous life I used to be an English teacher, (during some of the quieter moments of desperation during any given day I wonder what it would look and feel like to still be an English teacher – totally different landscape) and one of my favourite authors to ‘teach’ was Bernard Beckett. In one his bios he talks of lurking in secondary schools, watching teenagers succumb to education.
Why the edge? If the centre is the conventional, the stable, the expected, the traditional, the safe then perhaps the edge is where the divergent thinking is. Actually, if the centre is knowing what you’re doing when you’re in the leadership seat, comfortable and relatively secure, then the edge is the insecurity of inexperience, occasional doubt and bewilderment, and those persistent moments of what the hell do I do now!?!