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Ho, Jeanne; Shaari, Imran; Kang, Trivina – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
This article examines what vice-principals in Singapore experience as constraints to their leadership practice, and how they deal with these constraints, cognisant that role misalignment for vice-principals presents barriers to schools achieving optimal effectiveness. This qualitative study seeks to hear the voices of vice-principals, to uncover…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Assistant Principals, Barriers, Administrator Role
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Yuen, Jeanne Ho Pau; Victor Chen, Der-Thanq; Ng, David – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
Purpose: Using Activity Theory as an interpretive lens to examine the distribution of leadership, this paper shares a case study on how leadership for an ICT project was distributed in a Singapore school. Method: The case study involved observations of 49 meetings and 34 interviews of leaders and the teachers who were involved in the ICT project.…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Case Studies, School Administration, Observation
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Hairon, Salleh; Goh, Jonathan W. P. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
Distributed leadership is one of the most prominent contemporary leadership theories in education. Its attraction in education is perhaps due to its potential to bring about school improvement. A review of the literature, however, reveals broadness in the way the construct is being conceptualized and operationalized; thus making it elusive. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Participative Decision Making, Power Structure, Factor Analysis
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Ong, Chye Hin; Dimmock, Clive – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
This article describes a grounded theory constructed from a study of Singapore neighbourhood secondary school principals' engagement of their lowest stream, the Normal Technical students, in their schools. This substantive theory is labelled the "theory of selective engagement". It implies that how principals engage their lowest streamed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grounded Theory, Academic Ability, Low Achievement