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The Implications of Loneliness among School Principals
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Dor-Haim, Peleg; Oplatka, Izhar – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: This paper explores the subjective interpretations of school principals' experiences of loneliness in the workplace and the implications of those experiences. The study poses two questions: (1) How do school principals perceive that their experience of loneliness affects their emotional well-being? (2) How do school principals perceive…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Principals, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools
Feelings of Loneliness among School Principals: Experiences, Causes and Copying Strategies
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Dor-Haim, Peleg; Oplatka, Izhar – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2021
This study explored principals' perceptions of their own loneliness and their styles of coping with it. The study posed two questions: (1) How do school principals experience the personal and organizational factors that influence their loneliness in various work contexts? (2) What strategies do school principals use to cope with their sense of…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Social Isolation, Alienation, Principals
School Principal's Perception of Loneliness: A Career Stage Perspective
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Dor-Haim, Peleg; Oplatka, Izhar – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2020
The current study traced the principal's own interpretation of loneliness in the workplace throughout various career stages in the principal's career cycle. The study posed two questions: (1) How do school principals explain the personal and organisational factors that influence their loneliness experience as it relates to different contexts? (2)…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Individual Characteristics
Principal Workload: Components, Determinants and Coping Strategies in an Era of Standardization and Accountability
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Oplatka, Izhar – Journal of Educational Administration, 2017
Purpose: In order to fill the gap in theoretical and empirical knowledge about the characteristics of principal workload, the purpose of this paper is to explore the components of principal workload as well as its determinants and the coping strategies commonly used by principals to face this personal state. Design/methodology/approach:…
Descriptors: Principals, Faculty Workload, Accountability, Qualitative Research
Gendered Views of Managing Discipline in School and Classroom
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Oplatka, Izhar; Atias, Miri – Gender and Education, 2007
The current study explored male and female principals' views of classroom and discipline management from a gender perspective. Based on semi-structured interviews with 16 primary school principals from Israel, the study points to gendered views of school discipline, in that certain perspectives to prevent or handle discipline problems in school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discipline, Discipline Problems, Principals
Instructional and Moral Leadership in Early Twentieth Century: The Story of Yehuda Antebi, a Primary School Principal in Galilee
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Oplatka, Izhar; Hefer-Antebi, Elioz – Planning and Changing, 2008
The leadership and career experiences of the principal in other eras are relatively missing from both the writings about school administration nowadays and the social history of schools. Exploring past forms of leadership might shed light on enduring aspects of leadership and its contextual-historical influences as well as on the development of…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Moral Values, Leadership Styles