ENIRDELM-related professional activities

An aim of our network is to promote international collaboration in professional activities

The twice-yearly ENIRDELM Newsletter contains up-to-date information about existing and desired collaborations between members in professional projects and other international forms of mutual assistance. See the sections in the Newsletter entitled "ENIRDELM Matters" and "ENIRDELM Members' Project Updates". Please send the Editor at any time, any requests for, or reports on, collaboration that you wish to have included in the Newsletter

Invitation to the EL4SD Blog and Collection of EL4SD articles
Please have a look at ENIRDELM’s attempt to enter the blogosphere and consider adding comments or a new theme.  This can be done by sending an e-mail to Thomas Söderberg with your request and e-mail address after which you will get a permission to participate in the blog. You can also access over 200 articles relating to environmental and leadership issues by using the hyperlink “David Oldroyd delicious links ---->” on the right side of this page.

Update on the ENIRDELM Research Project (see also the latest newsletter for more updates)
“An international study of what school leaders value”.
Introduction
This self-funding initiative is the most ambitious ever undertaken by the ENIRDELM network.  It arose from last year’s Bergen Conference which included a keynote presentation by Mike Bottery and a workshop by David Oldroyd on the issue of school leadership and the threats to a sustainable global environment.  All the researchers are volunteers and the research extends beyond Europe to include samples from the two super-powers (US and China) that will play pivotal roles in dealing with the global crises that will affect us all.  In Antwerp Mike and David led a workshop to update ENIRDELM members on the progress of the research.
Revised list of participants
Data have been received from fifteen countries:

• UK (England) – Mike Bottery, Team Leader & Nigel Wright, Statistician
• Sweden – Erik Groth
• Finland – Taipani Niemanen & Jukka Ahonen
• Latvia – Ilse Ivanova & Signe
• Slovenia -– Suzana Sedmak & Justina Erculj
• Hungary – Tibor Barath
• Iceland – Borkur Hansen
• Czech Republic – Milan Pol & Jana Vastatkova
• Norway – Ola Hoff Kaldestad
• USA – Dean Bowles
• Macedonia – Natasa Angelovska-Galevska
• Albania – Alqi Mustafai
• Poland – Ela Walkiewicz & Dorota Ekiert
• Croatia – Petra Hobdaj
• China – P M Wong

Research Coordinator - David Oldroyd, Poland
Web-site Coordinator - Thomas Soderberg, Sweden
Revised schedule

• By the end of 2009 we hope to have the second batch of data from Nigel’s SPSS processing to send out to the national researchers

Longer term plan
1. Mike Bottery has obtained a grant from Hull University for a small-scale follow up qualitative study of educational leadership by headteachers. E will share with the research team his initial findings as soon as they are formulated.
2. In Antwerp the Research Group received advice in:

• Planning similar in-country follow-up studies.
• Becoming involved in further grant-supported international R & D that focuses more directly on educational leadership and environment sustainability issues.  Applications for grants will be considered in 2010 when the main study findings from phase one are available.

3. A long-term goal is to move from this research into values held by school leaders that include evidence about their level of commitment to environmental sustainability to action research projects that will help educational leaders to focus their work more effectively on global threats than at present.

Research Coordinator - David Oldroyd, Poland
Web-site Coordinator - Thomas Soderberg, Sweden

Any more ENIRDELM friends from elsewhere who are interested, please contact Mike.

ENIRDELM Matters

What ENIRDELM IS, HAS and MIGHT become? Notes from the Uppsala Annual Meeting

At the Uppsala Conference David Oldroyd gave a short presentation to stimulate Round Table Discussions on the above questions:

IS -

1. A self-sustaining; self-selecting network set up to bring together from across Europe, professionals interested in educational leadership; 
2. An annually migrating temporary institutional base linked to the conference event with geographically dispersed leadership, male and female.
3. A totally voluntary very friendly membership with a strong social as well as professional side that stimulates heads, hearts and hands;
4. Highly productive with many tangible outputs to its credit in the form of conferences, publications, projects and a web-site.

HAS –

1. Sustained itself for 17 years through the energy of its members;
2. Drifted north-westwards;
3. Many heroes in the form of conference organisers, editors, project initiators
4. Two sides - a strong face-to-face (F2F) and a weaker ICT approach to networking

MIGHT –

1. Try better to ‘catch the wave’ of the digital age by strengthening its electronic network through the website
2. Rediscover and discover participants from Eastern and South Eastern Europe

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