THEORETICAL CONCEPT OF LEADERSHIP STYLES IN CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION
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Leadership in education is an innovative and challenging pedagogical phenomenon that implies the most optimal realization of educational goals and school achievements by leading the dynamics of teaching, developing educational strategies and encouraging the desired behavior and activities. In recent years, leadership has been a significant landmark of numerous reforms in the educational environment, but also an important area of scientific study. Actors in the teaching process who consider themselves as leaders play a key role in increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of teaching. As the success of achieving the vision of a leader depends on his characteristics, abilities and ways of perceiving his role by other participants in school functioning, the focus of this paper is directed on studying these aspects of the concept of leadership. The paper gives an analysis of the basic theoretical determinants of leadership and management in education, with special critical review of leadership styles in the teaching environment, their basic characteristics, values and limitations. Starting with classical leadership styles, the paper presents some of the modern leadership styles such as transformational and transactional leadership styles in education, whose key elements are reflected in the reconstruction of the school in order to design new educational strategies in a collaborative, motivating environment and, on the other hand, in achieving higher performance in teaching through the management and application of reward and punishment systems. These leadership styles are presented in pedagogical practice and they reflect the ways of effective management of modern teaching. The significance and implications of this paper are reflected in emphasizing the importance of recognizing the elements of leadership styles in teaching practice in order to provide conditions for improving educational work but also restructuring the school as a better educational organization for modern society.
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