Distributed Leadership: A Scoping Review Mapping Current Empirical Research

Distributed leadership has enjoyed increased popularity, becoming a prevalent model of school leadership. The focus distributed is to foster shared practices thereby enhancing culture and practice. Despite multiple literature reviews that sought yield greater understanding the theoretical underpinnings leadership, there little on empirical research in post-primary schools. Therefore, this article reports scoping review 39 studies were analysed identify main trends body offer implications for future research. corpus include typical methodologies used, common constructs which studied respect of, most framework subscribed by research, variances authors results lead us conclude need rigor Future suggested regarding perceptions its relationship with policy, wellbeing, female required flourish.