...Ingela Portfelt Purpose The aim of the study is to examine how principals in Swedish municipal adult education (SMAE) interpret and translate the 2010 Education Act’s mandate to lead education based on scientific foundation and proven experience. By analysing enactment as a locally situated...

... Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Governance Crisis management Leadership Communication Stress Adjustment Education Sensemaking Principals School leaders Peer support We are a group of researchers from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland...

... between principals and middle leaders contributes to research on the responsibilities of school leaders. Design/methodology/approach The paper builds on a 2023 survey of 641 school leaders in Norway (a 21% response rate). The survey is based on established instruments, using a battery of questions...

.... The research also highlights the role of network meetings in fostering reflection, discussion and the exchange of strategies for enacting SQW policies in diverse contexts, addressing a gap in previous research on the contextualisation of policy enactment and the interactions of principals within network...

...Karyne Gamelin; Izhak Berkovich Purpose This study aims to investigate the influence tactics used by school principals and their effect on teachers’ readiness for change and their intention to leave their positions. The research explored how different types of influence tactics affect teachers...

...María del Pilar García-Rodríguez; Inmaculada Gómez-Hurtado; Inmaculada González-Falcón; José Manuel Coronel Purpose We analyse the practices of distributed leadership exercised by principals in two Spanish primary schools. We provide evidence in this area. The study is framed in the Spanish...

...Nitza Schwabsky; Anit Somech Purpose This study aimed to examine teachers’ perceptions of their principals’ organisational citizenship behaviours (POCB hereafter), for which a POCB measure was developed, and to examine its association with the teacher performance outcomes: job satisfaction...

...Fozia Ahmed Baloch; Nazir Ahmed Jogezai Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic, as well as its effects on education in general, has influenced the leadership landscape of school principals, which may have necessitated adaptations and transitions in their leadership orientation. To better comprehend any...

...Fatemeh Abbaspour; Rezvan Hosseingholizadeh; Mehmet Şükrü Bellibaş Purpose Current school leadership research has primarily utilized quantitative methods to explore the relationship between leadership and teacher learning. However, there is a notable gap in understanding how principals facilitate...

...Ntokozo Dennis Ndwandwe Purpose This research aimed to assess the leadership role of principals in the implementation of peace education in selected secondary schools in the Western Cape, South Africa. Design/methodology/approach This study employed qualitative research approach to assess...

...Tahani Hassan; Izhak Berkovich Purpose This study investigated the relationship between principals' abusive leadership and teachers' intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, exploring the potential moderating effects of the duration of the relationship and group size within educational settings...

...Izhak Berkovich; Tahani Hassan Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of teachers' intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in the relationship between principals' perceived distributed leadership and organizational learning capability in schools. Design/methodology...

...Tiedan Huang; Pascale Benoliel Purpose This study aims to test the mediated effect of school climate in the relationship of principal time use (PTU) to student academic achievement using data from Singapore's 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Design/methodology...

... on instructional leadership in school middle leaders. This study suggests that principals and middle leaders, who work closely with each other to provide instructional leadership in their schools, do so in different ways. Principals' instructional leadership has been linked to higher student achievement...

...Coby Meyers; Tiffany Aaron; Dallas Hambrick Hitt; Bryan VanGronigen Purpose School improvement planning has been a central part of school improvement initiatives for decades. Evidence suggests, however, that traditional planning processes are regularly superficial. In the USA, some principals have...

...Haim Shaked Purpose Instructional leadership is an educational leadership approach in which principals are regularly and actively involved in a wide range of activities aimed at improving teaching and learning. The current study sought to answer how the principal's role in promoting parental...

...Amal Abdulwahab Alsaleh Purpose This study investigated the roles and perspectives of head teachers and principals in regard to the potential for learning loss in the online setting, with a particular focus on conditions during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Kuwait. It also...

...Haim Shaked Purpose Instructional leadership is a major part of the responsibility of principals who achieve promising results in school improvement. This paper aims to explore the inhibiting factors for instituting instructional leadership in elementary schools located in rural areas in Israel...

...Devora Friedman; Izhak Berkovich Purpose Principals are considered central in initiating and mobilizing changes in schools; however, their political behaviors in the course of school changes are underexplored. The present research investigated the influence tactics used by school principals...

... to investigate the psychological ownership of teams of change agents in schools. Six Israeli secondary state religious schools adopting a new liberal curricular program were studied. Thirty one interviews were conducted with principals, program coordinators, mid-level teacher leaders and teachers who were active...