...) commented that it is difficult to envision an action with greater effects on student outcomes than that of improving principal leadership. Rural areas Educational administration Principals Leadership Education At the turn of the 21st century there was a movement towards school success...

...Maxwell M. Yurkofsky; Donald J. Peurach Purpose This paper proposes a new conception of school systems arising out of the collision of three forces: (1) a longstanding press to rationalize the technical work of schools in the service of educational excellence; (2) a growing democratic press...

... Teams Knowledge Leadership Education Creation Mobilization Teacher learning Influencer Superintendent This study examined how leaders influence the creation and mobilization of knowledge across schools and districts. Ultimately, the leaders’ role is meant to positively affect student...

... with, and an outcome of, the TQM movement) provides a set of criteria for organizational quality assessment and improvement in the business, healthcare and education sectors. Given the imperative to improve the quality of schools in Mauritius, this study was designed to investigate the usefulness of the widely...

... educationally unprofessional, I couldn’t give a rat's patootie about NCLB. I’ve been doing this a long, long time. What I think one of the biggest things missing in education is common sense. And you can give me all the NCLB's, all these acronyms, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...

... and that is not at all paradoxical. Also areas such as Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong have actually benefitted educationally from their British colonial history. However, despite the scientific rational nature of Buddhist epistemology, the first educational reform of the visionary King Chulalongkorn to modernize...

...Clive Dimmock; Cheng Yong Tan Purpose While Singapore's outstanding educational achievements are well known worldwide, there is a disproportionate paucity of literature on school leadership practices that contribute to and support pedagogical initiatives that – along with socio‐cultural factors...

... reviews of research. However, the paper draws on a database of reviews of research previously conducted in educational leadership and management. In a separate effort, the author identified 40 reviews of research that had been published in educational leadership conducted over the past five decades...

... education and the mutual dependencies that exist among various parties involved in this activity” (Tschannen‐Moran, 2004, p. 23). This definition of respect is closely linked to fairness. Korsgaard et al. (1995) found, for example, that “[…] leaders may not need to relinquish control over...

...., 2007 ; Van Veen et al., 2010), as well as persistent efforts by governments, school administrations, and educators to enhance participation in CPD, teachers vary widely in the extent to which they participate (Aarts and Waslander, 2008 ; Diepstraten et al., 2011 ; Van Driel, 2006...

..., the paper extends an historical analysis to explore and explain current dilemmas of change in schools and schooling. Findings Over the last century, educational reforms have most often led to first order classroom change, represented by the development of hybrids of old and new teaching practices...

...Izhar Oplatka […] It would seem to us that the earlier post‐war foundational model of the patronage of key professors of education and the establishment of key journals has been replaced by a proliferation of professors of education, a disconnection between many of them and older disciplines...

... This paper traces developments from a national perspective and makes a case for the key contemporary policy shift that has provided the platform for a new era of educational reform. Two contrasting case studies are described in order to demonstrate the pathways embarked on by a large jurisdiction, namely...

...Stephen Dinham; Frank Crowther; Stephen Dinham; Frank Crowther Purpose This paper aims to serve as an introduction to and overview of this special issue of the Journal of Educational Administration entitled “Building organisational capacity in school education”. The co‐editors have...

... parents”, wanting to micromanage the classroom to their own liking. “Teachers fear they might be sued or fired if they do not conform to a parent's request, even when the teacher's actions are educationally sound, reasonable, and responsible” (p. 104). Farber's recommendations include establishing...

...Adem Bayar Fenwick   English and Rosemary   Papa . Restoring Human Agency to Educational Administration: Status and Strategies . ProActive Publications , 2010 . 106 pp. , ISBN: 1‐885432‐50‐X   $25.00 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 --> Education...

...Julie Searle Julie Searle is an English and History teacher at Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley (home of the Edible Schoolyard kitchen/organic garden program). Julie advocates for arts‐based education and often brings spoken word artists and visual art into the classroom. She...

...Heather L. Mosley Linhardt The last two chapters of Part II look beyond school walls to issues involving communities and global realities. In Chapter 9, “Educational leaders as cultural workers: engaging families and school communities through transformative leadership”, Wilson Cooper reminds us...

... Race relations Racial discrimination Culture Justice Social justice Education Tema Okun's book, The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching about Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know, begins with a short summary of the famous piece of the same name by Hans Christian Anderson...

...Marsha Sarver References Hauser , G.M. and Koutouzos , G.M. (2010), The Standards‐based Digital School Leader Portfolio: Using TaskStream, LiveText, and PowerPoint , Rowman & Littlefield Education , Lanham, MD . International Society for Technology in Education...