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The paper focuses on collaborative leadership in
education and how to illustrate its engendering process in
a three-dimensional space. This complex and fluid
process is examined as distributed and pedagogical within
a Finnish vocational upper secondary educational
organization. As a consequence, the notion of distributed
pedagogical leadership is used when collaborative
leadership in education is studied. Collaborative
leadership is argued to consist of the innermost substance
of a professional learning community, as attributes of a
group of people working together for specific purposes.
Therefore, collaborative leadership naturally involves
actors, activities, and context. However, the innermost
substance of the community is the crux of leadership. It is
here presented in the form of ten “keys”, as ten attributes
with several operational nuances. The keys are highly
interdependent and a movement in one of them has an
effect both on every other key and the whole. Within this
framework, the paper provides a presentation of selected
study results by means of the 3D program Strata. The
visualizations illustrate concrete examples of how the
keys relate to the reality in the vocational education
organization in question. For this, a novel analysis called
Wave is used, based on natural laws and rules of physics.
