.... This review analyzes the roles, responsibilities, training, socialization, and typologies of the assistant principal. Research limitations/implications As a result of this research, it is suggested that the role of the assistant principal needs to be reconfigured. Additional research is needed...

.../approach The researchers employed qualitative methods to examine the experiences of four novice principals over a two‐year period. Findings The findings suggest that the current climate of efficiency and accountability is contributing to the socialization of principals who focus on the technical...

...Allan Walker; Gary M. Crow Purpose This paper aims to contribute to the literature and practice on beginning principal socialization by identifying the features of post‐industrial work that create a more complex work environment for the practice and learning of the principalship in the USA...

... of social objectives and a context of high‐pressure accountability, limited resources and increasing institutional and systemic complexity uncertainty. Beginning principals face the difficult task of having to reconcile these tensions and in some contexts there is emerging evidence of this impacting...

... platform upon which learning communities can be built. While “surviving” is prerequisite to flourishing, it is not sufficient for the transformation of schools into vibrant learning communities. Though there are various formal models of socialization, Greenfield (1977) posited that socialization...

... by beginning headteachers in the UK; it also contributes conceptually to the socialization of headteachers and suggests a stage model of headship, relating the beginning phase to a holistic perspective of headteachers' career trajectories. Dick Weindling can be contacted at: dweindling@blueyonder.co.uk...