ABSTRACT

This chapter addresses a number of the issues raised in Chapters 2 and 3 on how leadership and learning may be linked and how that knowledge may be translated into strategies and actions by school leaders so as to create and sustain a supportive environment for learning. We acknowledge that learning does not always have to be experienced as enjoyable or entertaining, although when this happens it is a source of added pleasure. Learning may sometimes be confusing, troubling, even painful and at times certainly not easy. However, when the pain or confusion ‘barrier’ is passed, learning is always accompanied by a sense of satisfaction. Getting to the satisfaction of achievement is in large part assisted by the quality of the environment in which learning takes place and part of that environment is created by the approach taken by teachers to learning.