... research base suggesting that professional learning communities have an important role in growing teachers’ decision-making capacity in addition to contributing to their social and human capital. Furthermore, this study underscores that decisional capital is associated with improved individual...

...Simon Sjölund; Paula Arce-Trigatti; Caitlin C. Farrell Purpose This study examines whether the research-practice partnership (RPP) model supports preschool education leaders in navigating the new power dynamics of collaborative decision-making introduced by recent public reforms in Sweden...

... for tested hypotheses. Findings The research identifies that peer pressure affects the decision-making of university choice through five components: “social integration,” “social networks,” “trust in friends,” “social comparison” and “risk tolerance.” Research limitations/implications The study...

... governance. Findings Embedding the principalship in a philosophy (or theory) of education re-couples school administration with schooling and bases decision-making in principles rather than individuals. It also alters the role of data and evidence from accountability to justifying principles. Research...

... at district and school levels. However, academic decentralization was utterly neglected. Furthermore, with the inclusion of district administration in the education decision-making, powers seem to be recentralized. The study concluded that decentralization should occur through a proper legislative process...

... is adopted, where the latter is viewed as complex, unpredictable and inherently political. It distinguishes between policy makers who make decisions based on a rational model of decision-making and providers who carry out the decisions made. Winton's (2012) policy web of relationship is used...

...Stephanie Chitpin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to know the extent to which a decision-making framework assists in providing holistic, comprehensive descriptions of strategies used by school leaders engaging with distributed leadership practices. The process by which principals and other...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Education Tenure Promotion Decision-making Objective Knowledge Growth Framework Student evaluations Tim [1] is Assistant Professor at Capital University. His recent bid for tenure and promotion has been denied by John, the Dean...