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Godfrey, David – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
This article examines the conditions for the growth and expansion of research-engaged schools in England. The current policy climate is seeing a rapid growth of autonomous schools coupled with the continuing tendency to hold schools to account for overall student educational attainment indicators. Within this context, the article begins by…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, School Culture, Biology, Foreign Countries
Dowling-Hetherington, Linda – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
Over the past decade, universities in Ireland have been implementing large-scale institutional change designed to better prepare them for the multitude of pressures they face. Changes have been taking place, for example, in approaches to institutional management and leadership practices and in decision-making structures. However, despite the rapid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Change, Educational Administration
Ehren, Melanie C. M.; Honingh, M. E.; Hooge, E. H.; O'Hara, J. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
This paper addresses if, and to what extent, the current working methods of the Dutch Inspectorate of Education affect the governance of school boards in schools for primary education. A key facet of the working method is the inspection meeting with the school board. Drawing upon a large quantitative study (n = 244) we are able to identify some…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Boards of Education, Governing Boards, Governance
Stringer, Patricia; Hourani, Rida Blaik – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
Schools in Abu Dhabi are going through transformation and reform. The New School Model (2010) introduced changes to the curriculum and teaching and learning methodologies. In line with these changes, recently introduced "Principal Professional Standards" and "Performance Evaluation" documents have conceptualized new roles and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Principals, Administrator Role
Dale, Di; James, Chris – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
Educational change can call up a range of feelings that can pose a number of problems for those experiencing and/or organizing it. This article analyses the processes of educational change from a psychodynamic standpoint. In particular it explores affective containment, which enables feelings to be fully experienced and to be used productively. an…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Psychological Patterns, Case Studies, Postsecondary Education
Torrance, Deirdre; Humes, Walter – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
Increasing emphasis has been placed on leadership within educational theory, policy and practice. Drawing on a wide range of academic literature and policy documents, this paper explores how the discourse of leadership has shifted and for what purposes. The authors are critical of the lack of conceptual underpinning for that discourse, evident…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Teacher Role
Lai, Edith; Cheung, Derek – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
This paper attempts to identify leadership practices and qualities of school teachers as they engaged in effecting change initiated by a curriculum reform in Hong Kong. Based on interview data of teachers from nine schools, this paper shows how teacher leadership manifested itself in schools. Three approaches to teacher leadership were identified,…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Teacher Role, Change Agents
Wong, Ping-Man; Cheung, Alan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
This article is one of a series of papers generated from the Curriculum Reform study in Hong Kong with the purpose of understanding the impact of government's role in the change process of the reform. This paper specifically examines the 17 government initiatives in the Curriculum Reform in terms of their adoption percentages of schools from…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Government Role, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Zayim, Merve; Kondakci, Yasar – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
Readiness for change is one of the constructs that fosters positive behaviours, attitudes and thinking towards new adjustments on the part of employees. As one of the internal context variables, trust acts as a catalyst for supportive behaviours in times of change and uncertainty by reducing change related resistance and stress. Based on this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Browne, Liz; Rayner, Steve – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
The contemporary English policy discourse in higher education of "Putting Students at the Heart of the System" has led to an increasing use of managing by performance "smart-data" reinforcing a consumer-led representation of students as "partners" in the "business of learning" within the academy. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Administration, Instructional Leadership, Data
Akkary, Rima Karami – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
This study provides empirical data about the role and work context of the school principal in the Lebanon. The study applied grounded theory methods in collecting and analysing the data. The data were collected through a series of open-ended interviews with 53 secondary school principals, and focus group interviews with 8 principals from public as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Grounded Theory
Woods, Philip; Simkins, Tim – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
The structure of the English school system has been the subject of almost continuous change since the late-1980s. The most recent was commenced by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government, which was elected in May 2010. This policy set in train, very quickly, processes through which all schools have been encouraged, and in some cases…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, School Districts, Educational Finance
Smith, Penny; Abbott, Ian – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
Drawing on data from a series of semi-structured interviews this article reports on findings from a research project focusing on the responses of two local authorities and their secondary schools to the Academies Act 2010. The article considers the background and the development of the education system in both localities. It goes on to focus on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews, Secondary Schools, Educational Legislation
Lubienski, Christopher – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
Recent reforms in England's education system have been justified on the grounds that other countries have pursued similar approaches to education reform. Many such policies that by-pass or otherwise diminish meso-level institutions demonstrate a commitment to the idea of devolving authority to local actors. The current reforms in England and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Governance
Yin, Hongbiao; Lee, John Chi-Kin; Wang, Wenlan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
Since the mid-1980s, a global resurgence of large-scale reform in the field of education has been witnessed. Implementing these reforms has created many dilemmas for change leaders. Following a three-year qualitative research project, the present study explores the dilemmas leaders faced during the implementation of the national curriculum reform…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Global Approach