TITLE Educational Leadership for the 21st Century: Integrating Three Emerging Perspective.

Dramatic changes in the work environment of education have resulted in role ambiguity and role overload for school principals. This paper explores the role of the principal of self-managing schools, especially as the role relates to educational leadership over the next decade. Several themes in the educational reforms likely to emerge and grow across national settings over the next 10 years are explored. The next section presents three interconnected perspectives on educational leadership (the cultural/school-transformation perspective, the strategic/results-driven perspective, and the linking-management-support-to-educational-improvement perspective), and discusses how these must be fit together if leadership in self-managing schools is to survive the decade. Finally, the paper presents practical applications and principal competencies that follow from the integrated view of the new educational leadership at the school level. The last section offers speculations about what will have been importan