ISEA • Volume 41, Number 1, 20136
This paradigm shift creates a number of leadership challenges at the organisational and human levels. A full understanding of educational governance in general and school governance in particular provides a fundamental starting point to the understanding of governance processes in the educational sector. James, Balarin, Brammer & McCormack (2008: 394) underlined the perception of governance as a network when they maintained that ‘the conceptualization of school governance as a network is valuable’. James et al. (2008) highlight the need for a reflective and analytical exercise of school governance as a network which sees the bringing together of individuals (from within the school and the community at large), their capabilities, relationships and motivations.