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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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Niesche, Richard – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2013
This paper presents a case for the importance of an application of Jean-Francois Lyotard's ideas to the analysis of educational leadership. Through exploring Lyotard's concepts of "language games", the "differend" and "performativity", this paper argues that the approach taken through the development of…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Standards, Politics of Education, Pragmatics
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Niesche, Richard – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2010
The aim of this paper is to illustrate how principal subjectivities are constructed by particular normalizing processes that occur through the disciplinary power of grants and submission writing. An increasing part of the principal's job, under moves towards self-governing schools, is a reliance of grants and submissions in order to obtain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Based Management, Principals, Grants
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Jorgensen, Robyn; Walsh, Lynne; Niesche, Richard – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2009
Reforming schools is a challenging aspect of contemporary education. The role of leadership within reform agendas is critical. This article presents a case study of one school that has been highly successful in the implementation of this reform. The processes employed by the school at various levels demonstrate the ways in which effective…
Descriptors: Leadership Effectiveness, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Case Studies