210 CHALLENGES IN EDUCATION УДК 378.637(470.5) ББК Ч448.94 ГСНТИ 14.01.75 Simonova Alevtina Aleksandrovna, Doctor of Pedagogy, Professor, Ural State Pedagogical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. <...> Babich Galina Nikolaevna, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Ural State Pedagogical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. <...> REFLECTIONS ON FOSTERING LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATION: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE URAL STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS: leadership, education, development, contradictions and risks, structural model, cluster. <...> The article presents the experience of Ural State Pedagogical University (USPU) in its training education leaders over past years. <...> It describes the trends in development of pedagogical education, challenges and peculiarities in the training educational leaders. <...> Different practices and foundations are used for leader education. <...> Not only professionals or administrators can be leaders, but educational institutions can be leaders as well. <...> Our model of education of leaders embraces two different kinds of leadership – administrative and professional, which is based on harmony and combination of variations emphasizing the cultural constituent of the leader. <...> Leadership issues are closely related to the practical goal of professional development. <...> From this point of view, the status of the pedagogical university, the influence of USPU on various sociocultural spheres of the region as a key university of an educational cluster is evaluated. <...> Алевтина Александровна Симонова, доктор педагогических наук, профессор, Уральский государственный педагогический университет; 620017, г. <...> Галина Николаевна Бабич кандидат филологическх наук, профессор, Уральский государственный педагогический университет; 620017, г. <...> РАЗМЫШЛЕНИЯ О СОВЕРШЕНСТВОВАНИИ ПОДГОТОВКИ ЛИДЕРОВ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ: ВЗГЛЯД УРАЛЬСКОГО ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА КЛЮЧЕВЫЕ СЛОВА: лидерство, образование, подготовка, противоречия и риски, структурная модель, кластер. <...> Introduction F or a long time a scientific study of the leadership phenomenon has been studied from the philosophical and sociological viewpoints. <...> A leader was considered to be equal to an administrator having power and authority; becoming a leader was thought of as a passport for opportunity. <...> The “accounting period” set to accomplish modernization of all educational institutes by 2010 is over, but the principal trends of their transformation and development are still in Код ВАК 13.00 00 ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКОЕ ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ В РОССИИ. 2016. № 2 action. <...> We <...>