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Title: A Safe Space and Leadership Matter for Innovation: Exploring the Role of Psychological Safety in the Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Innovation Radicalness in Kyrgyz Classrooms
Language: English
Authors: Mehmet Şükrü Bellibaş (ORCID 0000-0003-1281-4493), Farida Ryskulueva (ORCID 0009-0000-2846-9474), Julia Levin (ORCID 0009-0002-3020-0444), Marcus Pietsch (ORCID 0000-0002-9836-6793)
Source: Educational Management Administration & Leadership. 2026 54(2):556-578.
Availability: SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 23
Publication Date: 2026
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Educational Innovation, Principals, Leadership Styles, Teaching Conditions, Well Being, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education
Geographic Terms: Kyrgyzstan
DOI: 10.1177/17411432241264696
ISSN: 1741-1432
1741-1440
Abstract: The present research examines the relationship between school transformational leadership and innovation radicalness in classrooms with the moderating and mediating role of psychological safety, to provide an understanding of whether and to what extent the influence of leadership on innovation radicalness in teaching might be strengthened or weakened across various levels of psychological safety. Utilizing a dataset that included 5052 teachers working in 147 schools across Kyrgyzstan, we conducted multilevel analyses to test the proposed hypotheses. We found a positive association of transformational leadership with psychological safety and innovation radicalness in classrooms at the teacher level. Moreover, transformational leadership was more strongly related to radical innovation in schools with greater psychological safety among teachers both at the teacher and school levels. We conclude that school principals should prioritize the emotional state of teachers characterized by psychological safety by acting as transformational leaders, thereby enhancing the impact of their practices on the realization of higher innovation radicalness in the pedagogical practices of teachers.
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