... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Educational leadership Street-level bureaucracy Structural constraints Adaptive resilience Centralized education systems Elementary school principals This work was supported by Balıkesir University Scientific Research Projects Unit...

...Bity Salwana Alias; Siti Nur Aishah Sumap; Salleh Amat Purpose This study synthesises recent empirical evidence on how educational leadership theories and management practices shape institutional responses to students at risk of dropout. It reframes dropout as a leadership-mediated, system-level...

... effect of educational leadership on teaching practices? RQ2. Do different models of leadership differ in their impact on teaching practices? The concept of instructional leadership was developed in the middle of the 20th century, thanks to research on the effectiveness of schools...

... professional development PD School principals Educational leadership Narrative review Context-specific adaptation CIPO model Ferdowsi University of Mashhad 62892 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003121 Funding: This work was supported by Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (award...

...Sanna Lassen; Berit Lassesen Purpose Mid-level leaders outside the managerial line play an essential yet often unrecognised role in higher education (HE). Tied to the broadly defined concept of educational leadership, this role is underexplored and appears fragmented in existing research...

...Shafie Arzani; Maryam Sameri; Niloufar Mortazanezhad Purpose This study positions financial stewardship as a foundational dimension of educational leadership, arguing that effective financial management is not a peripheral administrative task but a primary driver of leadership efficiency...

... and strategic planning tools. It highlights the value of aligning pedagogy with institutional strategy and stakeholder voice, even in resource-limited environments. Originality/value This paper contributes to educational leadership literature by offering a theoretically grounded, practice-led account...

...Alex Mäkiharju; Ann-Sofie Smeds-Nylund Purpose Ultimately, the study contributes to theoretical and empirical inquiry by offering a pedagogically grounded framework for understanding educational leadership. Design/methodology/approach Grounded in pedagogical theory, it highlights two key...

... 2024 10 03 2025 27 06 2025 30 07 2025 31 07 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Educational leadership Work stress Middle leader Autonomy Principals This work is part of CLASS (Comparisons...

... and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at Link to the terms of the CCBY 4.0 licence . Research-practice partnership Preschool Educational leadership Decision-making Autonomy Collaboration...

... and professional success. Self-fulfilment in education Special education principals Self-fulfilment at work Educational leadership Self-fulfilment is recognized as a fundamental aspect of human experience (Carbajal et al., 2024 ; Margies, 2024), reflecting the realization of personal...

..., tools, language and a myriad of other factors that enable and constrain leadership practice” (Mayrowetz, 2008 , p. 427). Following Gronn (2016) , the concept of DL has been mooted in management literature for some time now and has recently attracted attention in educational leadership discourse...

... teachers’ perspectives and integrating the Korthagen model into the educational setting. We also propose an integrative theoretical approach that uncovers synergies between the Korthagen model and the educational leadership literature. Furthermore, the technological advancements accelerated by the COVID...

..., 2021 ; DeMatthews et al., 2023 ; Gutiérrez et al., 2022 ; Hayes et al., 2022 ; Kwatubana and Molaodi, 2020 ; Reid, 2022 ; Rehm et al., 2021 ; Sandvik et al., 2024 ; Snodgrass Rangel and Butcher, 2023). Leadership Educational leadership...

... contributed to the development of adopting a multidimensional view in educational leadership students. Design/methodology/approach The present study was qualitative in nature. Study participants were 32 graduate students from an Israeli college of education who participated in case-based learning held...

... educational leadership. Regarding the professional development of school leaders, educational leadership training programs could be designed and offered by the Greek Ministry of Education (Dexter et al., 2020). Coaching programs and practices that help principals develop social skills, coping...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Management ICT Digital Educational leadership Over the past decades, digital media and Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become a part of virtually all aspects of the collective professional and private lives...

... written on the experiences of women educational leaders come from South Africa (Diko, 2014; Mestry and Schmidt, 2012; Moorosi, 2010). In Ghana, quantitative studies have focused on factors accounting for gender disparity in education leadership in specific districts (Segkulu and Gyimah, 2016...

... stressors and coping were the theme to be played out. Elsa Kristiansen can be contacted at: elsa.kristiansen@usn.no 28 12 2020 08 03 2021 18 03 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Educational leadership...

.... Genc Alimehmeti can be contacted at: genc.alimehmeti@unibo.it 21 01 2021 10 03 2021 16 03 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Educational leadership Innovative teaching practices Polynomial regression...