...Paul Campbell; Yui Chung Kam Purpose Principal agency remains underexplored in non-Western, high-accountability contexts, with implications for leadership learning and practice. This study investigates how Hong Kong principals perceive and enact agency, examining the influence of professional...

...Junjun Chen; Allan David Walker; Philip Riley Purpose Principals' well-being worldwide is under increasing threat due to the challenging and complex nature of their work and growing demands. This paper aimed at developing and validating a multidimensional Principal Well-being Inventory (PWI...

... exists about school leaders. Such information is critical to ensure educators receive the appropriate professional development and support (Sachs, 2016) and move the field forward and thus motivated the authors to ask how principals view their work and whether it can be seen as part of a discrete...

...Philip Hallinger; Donnie Adams; Alma Harris; Michelle Suzette Jones Purpose Over the past several decades, instructional leadership has gradually gained increasing currency as a key role of school principals throughout much of the world. This is also the case in Malaysia where educational research...

...Philip Hallinger and Allan Walker; David Ng; Dong Thanh Nguyen; Benjamin Koon Siak Wong; William Kim Weng Choy Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a review of empirical studies on principal leadership in Singapore. It seeks to provide a general picture of Singapore principals...

... addresses two specific goals: first, to describe and critically assess the nature of the formal knowledge base on principal leadership in Vietnam, second, to synthesize findings from the existing literature on principal leadership in Vietnam. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employed a method...

.... Edited by: DiPaola, M.F. and Forsyth, P.B. Contemporary Challenges Confronting School Leaders Information Age Publishing 2012 243 pp. 978-1-61735-927-9 $45 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> School leadership Principal Leadership challenges...

.../approach The author reviewed the published work of the originator from 1970‐2009, as well as his preparation program for principals, and evaluated his approach primarily in light of two perspectives, emotional labor and positive emotions. The paper probes the utility of using these sociological...

...Anthony H. Normore Reviews Breaking the silence, a book designed to provide insightful and meaningful information for aspiring and practicing teachers and school administrators who wish to become informed and effective educators in schools. The chapters cover: the problem of principal...