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Yanzheng Li; Zorka Karanxha – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
This systematic literature review critically evaluates 14 empirical studies published over a 14 years span (2006-2019) to answer questions about the models and the effects of transformational school leadership on student academic achievement. The analysis of the related literature utilized vote counting and narrative synthesis to delineate the…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Instructional Leadership, Academic Achievement, Models
Alireza Tamadoni; Rezvan Hosseingholizadeh; Mehmet Sükrü Bellibas – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
The function of school leadership has been significantly changed by the multi-layered school context to meet the demands of stakeholders. Increasing autonomy and accountability pressures have made it difficult to maintain the balance of principals' tasks, which gives rise to a variety of challenges. This study adopted a descriptive quantitative…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Principals, Barriers, Instructional Leadership
Mette Marit Forsmo Jenssen; Jan Merok Paulsen – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
This study explores how Norwegian school leaders develop their capacity for instructional leadership, a leadership style that is strongly related to school effectiveness and school improvement across a range of national school systems. The concept captures important aspects of Norwegian school leaders' task preferences. To gain further insight…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Principals
Yasser F. Hendawy Al-Mahdy; Philip Hallinger; Mahmoud Emam; Waheed Hammad; Khalaf Marhoun Alabri; Khalsa Al-Harthi – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
Lagging student performance in the Sultanate of Oman has, in recent years, led the Ministry of Education to target teachers' professional learning as a key strategic pillar in its efforts to reform the education system. While international evidence finds principal leadership can make a meaningful difference in teacher engagement in professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Education
Sigríður Margrét Sigurðardóttir; Anna Kristín Sigurðardóttir; Börkur Hansen; Kjartan Ólafsson; Rúnar Sigþórsson – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
The purpose of this research is to shed light on the educational leadership practices regarding school support services at the municipal level in Iceland from the point of view of actors from both municipal and school levels. Furthermore to explain how those views are shaped by the structural arrangements and human resources of the services,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Academic Support Services, Municipalities
Jeanne Ho; David Hung; Puay Huat Chua; Norhayati Binte Munir – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
Purpose: Leadership for the implementation of an educational innovation in Singapore was examined by integrating distributed leadership with an ecological perspective of leadership and analysed using the third generation of cultural-historical activity theory. Research Method: The study adopted the naturalistic inquiry approach of a case study of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education, Educational Cooperation
Jeevan Khanal; Subekshya Ghimire – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
In the context of developed countries, a lot of research has been done to uncover and identify the problems school leaders face in their work but little is known about the school leadership of underdeveloped countries. In a quest to discover contextual problems in terms of role conflict and role ambiguity of school leaders, this qualitative study…
Descriptors: School Administration, Principals, Administrator Role, Foreign Countries
Darren A. Bryant; Allan Walker – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
Middle leaders in schools are increasingly recognised as playing pivotal roles in school improvement. Although some school systems provide formal professional development for middle leaders, many middle leaders express a preference for job-embedded learning. Yet, international research has documented difficulties in providing intensive support…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Foreign Countries, Middle Management
Ó Ceallaigh, T. J.; Ní Shéaghdha, Aoife – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
While research on Irish-medium immersion education (IME) has heralded benefits such as cognitive skills, academic achievement and language and literacy development, many studies have also identified challenges to its successful implementation. Immersion-specific research-validated tools can help school leaders navigate the school self-evaluation…
Descriptors: Irish, Immersion Programs, Educational Quality, Best Practices
Juma, John James; Ndwiga, Zachary N.; Nyaga, Milcah – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
This research article reports on instructional leadership as a controlling function in secondary schools. All the 41 secondary schools in Rangwe Sub County were included in the study and the targeted respondents were teachers and principals. A purposive sampling method was used to select the respondents from each school. A principal self-rating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students
Tian, Meng; Nutbrown, Graham – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
Existing distributed leadership (DL) theories tend to focus on distributing financial, material and human resources in order to enhance school performance. However, their impact appears controversial. Critical scholars assert that using DL to promote trust and democracy can be a self-fulfilling prophecy orchestrated by few formal leaders. When…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making, Trust (Psychology), Social Justice
To, Ken Hang; Yin, Hongbiao; Tam, Winnie Wing Yi; Keung, Chrysa Pui Chi – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
In response to the needs for kindergarten principals to foster teachers' capacities and commitment, this study examined the relationships between professional learning communities, principal leadership practices, and teacher commitment to kindergartens among 2106 teachers from 153 Hong Kong kindergartens, analyzing by using multilevel structural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Kindergarten, Communities of Practice
Thien, Lei Mee; Liu, Shengnan; Yee, Liu Qing; Adams, Donnie – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
The poor student performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment has urged the Malaysian authorities to upskill teachers' professional learning. However, little is known about how instructional leadership contributes to teacher professional learning, especially in the Malaysian context. This study seeks to investigate the direct…
Descriptors: Models, Instructional Leadership, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
Lumban Gaol, Nasib Tua – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
This paper reviews systematically literature on school leadership in the context of Indonesian education from 2004 to 2019. Its purpose is to investigate major issues which exist in the school leadership practices in Indonesia and propose some sustainable solutions so that educational policymakers, stakeholders and scholars can improve their…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, School Administration, Principals, Personnel Selection
Longmuir, Fiona – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
This paper examines the ways that Australian school leaders made sense of and responded to situations of crisis and uncertainty that resulted from the COVID-19 global pandemic. The paper draws on a qualitative study of the subjective experiences of eight school leaders and uses a sensemaking theoretical approach applied to crisis leadership to…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Altruism, COVID-19, Pandemics