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50 Years of ERIC
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Arar, Khalid; Oplatka, Izhar – School Leadership & Management, 2013
This article reports the findings of a study that sought to identify Muslim teachers' constructions of "masculinity" and "femininity" of the school principal. The first purpose of the study was to trace Muslim teachers' perceptions of masculine and feminine features of school principals, and the second was to explore their constructions of the…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Leadership Qualities, Sexual Identity, Muslims
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Gavish, Tali; Oplatka, Izhar – School Leadership & Management, 2012
This article examines the consequences of the relationships between school head teachers and mass media on various aspects of their role: emotional-personal, behavioural-managerial and perception. It also examines the sociocultural experience in which these head teacher-media interactions take place, that is, the adjustment of the school system,…
Descriptors: Coping, Instructional Leadership, Mass Media, Principals
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Oplatka, Izhar; Tako, Eitan – School Leadership & Management, 2009
The current study aimed at exploring desirable constructions of educational leadership among Israeli schoolteachers at three different career stages, as well as tracing the origins of these constructions. Based on semi-structured interviews with 10 teachers at early-career stage, 10 at mid-career stage and 10 at late-career stage, the study first…
Descriptors: Interviews, Instructional Leadership, Career Development, Foreign Countries
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Oplatka, Izhar; Hemsley-Brown, Jane; Foskett, Nick H. – School Leadership & Management, 2002
Uses semistructured interviews with 12 teachers from secondary schools in England to examines teacher perceptions of and attitudes toward factors related to the marketing of their schools. Discusses such factors as teachers' subjective interpretations of the marketing concept, attitudes toward active involvement in marketing, and actual…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Oplatka, Izhar – School Leadership and Management, 2005
Based on life story interviews with five women teachers, the current paper provides insight into the relationship between externally mandated change and teachers' self-renewal, as well as into the context facilitating this kind of association. Interestingly, the decision of the Ministry of Education to modify the teachers' area of teaching was…
Descriptors: Females, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change, Organizational Change
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Oplatka, Izhar – School Leadership & Management, 2001
Outlines experiences of 25 midcareer elementary teachers in Israel, exploring what happens to their management styles after several years. Through inductive analysis of lifestories data, revealed that 13 of the principals experienced cross-gender transition in relation to their managerial styles; 12 did not change their styles at all. Discusses…
Descriptors: Career Change, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues