... and opinions among participants, and differing interests in the status quo. School principals, charged with facilitator roles in locally managed schools, are challenged to address resulting conflicts in ways that yield functional synergies and constructive outcomes which enable schools to respond to community...

.... Educators must listen carefully and collaboratively to communicate successfully (Wilmore, 1995). Knowing how to accommodate different patterns and perceptions expands the effective interaction most educators seek. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Communications Learning styles Students People...

... and renovation point an administrator to the practical need for a constructivistic hermeneutic. An administrator needs to build and renovate an institution, carrying the mission of a given “academic home” into everyday campus action (Arnett, 1997, pp. 37‐56). Communications Management Metaphors...

...‐reference. In this way, paradox is able to be "unfolded" in the operational moment. Luhmann’s social systems require, however, a radically different view of the place of the individual in society from that of traditional social theory – he or she does not belong!Communications are the elementary units...

... in regular classroom programmes. Outlines several factors which were found to be common among the principals of the six schools. Each principal: established a system of communication that allowed staff members to disagree with policies and practices and to make recommendations for changes; was actively...

...Marc Dussault; Bruce G. Barnett Presents a study that verified the effects of the peer‐assisted leadership programme (PAL) on communication networks and professional isolation of educational managers. The study used a one‐group pre‐test post‐test design to test its hypotheses. The subjects were 41...