...Ahmet Aypay; Çiğdem Çakır; Metin Özkan; Mehmet Şükrü Bellibaş Purpose Although theoretical approaches widely recognize that leadership can shape school culture, empirical research on how culture is associated with the emergence and functioning of distributed leadership and how this form...

...Min Yang; Lei Mee Thien Purpose This study delves into the less-explored domain of teachers’ readiness for leadership roles by investigating the direct and indirect relationships between positive school culture and teachers' readiness for leadership roles through affective-identity motivation...

... exists on how agents' individual psychological ownership augments psychological ownership in schools and on how collective psychological ownership of change relates to school culture. The present study aims to address these two lacunae. Design/methodology/approach A case study method was adopted...

... method of the case-study. Findings The findings showed how both positive and negative informal groups rise and function in the Teacher Association. The role of the head teacher emerges as a very significant factor that influences the emergence and the preservation of such groups. The school culture...

...Miriam D. Ezzani Purpose The purpose of this paper (case study) is to capture a novel school culture that values instructional leadership (school leaders and teachers) and serves students in ways that create a culturally responsive and socially just schooling environment. Design/methodology...

...Daniel Carpenter Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore shared workspace and professional learning community (PLC) interactions in schools. The collaborative culture and PLCs were parts of the school culture. The collaborative culture of each school was designed to ensure teachers share...

... 12 2016 23 01 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Collaborative culture Professional learning communities Collaborative inquiry Instructional improvement School culture Shared workspace Professional...

...Daniel Carpenter Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore supportive and shared leadership structures at schools as a function of school culture policies and procedures. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative study was conducted at three secondary schools in the Midwestern USA...

...Shun‐wing Ng Purpose The purpose of this article is to report an exploratory study which was designed to illuminate how school cultures and teachers' value orientations are affected by the educational change of parental involvement. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative research...