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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Forde, Christine; McMahon, Margery; Gronn, Peter; Martin, Margaret – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
The use of coaching as a developmental methodology has been instituted as a way to develop leadership in schools in Scotland as elsewhere in the UK. While there are studies that examine the skills and impact of coaching, there is only limited discussion of the process of coaching and the role and experiences of the coaches. This article examines…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Principals, Instructional Leadership, Foreign Countries
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Woods, Philip A.; Gronn, Peter – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2009
This article reviews the comparative merits of distributed leadership and democratic leadership as understandings of, and preferred alternatives to, the leadership of and in organizations. It is particularly concerned that, while distributed leadership may provide a welcome and worthwhile respite from and alternative to the kind of heroic…
Descriptors: Democracy, Leadership, Democratic Values, Participative Decision Making
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Allix, Nicholas; Gronn, Peter – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2005
Despite a long history and considerable study, leadership remains a notoriously perplexing and enigmatic phenomenon. Although the "new leadership" perspective has revived convictions and general interest in leadership studies, conceptual and methodological problems nevertheless remain a feature of the research and theory-building terrain, and some…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Leadership, Knowledge Level, Epistemology