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Swaffield, Sue – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
For three years from 2008 every school in England had a designated school improvement partner (SIP), portrayed as a critical friend, whose role was to support and challenge the headteacher. A mixed-methods study involving a national survey and face-to-face interviews evaluated the enactment of the national policy from the perspective of the direct…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Educational Improvement
Bush, Tony – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
The Education Reform Act 1988 increased the scope of headteachers' work and led to an emphasis on "management", often interpreted as the implementation of government policies, checked through the Ofsted inspection regime. Following the election of a Labour government in 1997, the discourse changed to "leadership". Leadership…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrative Change, Educational Change, Principals
Collins, Mike – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
The notion of localism and decentralization in national policy has come increasingly to the fore in recent years. The national succession planning strategy for headteachers in England introduced by the National College for School Leadership promoted "local solutions for a national challenge". This article deals with some aspects of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Planning, Administrative Organization, Systems Approach
Blandford, Sonia – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
The "Achievement for All" (AfA) pilot initiative, delivered in partnership by the Department for Education (DfE), (formerly the Department for Children, Schools and Families [DCSF]), National Strategies and the National College (NCSL), aims to increase the attainment and progress of children in schools with special educational needs and…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Special Education, Special Needs Students, Parent Participation
Fuller, Kay – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
The "moral imperative" of school leadership has been identified as seeking to bring about social justice in ensuring all children are given the opportunity to succeed in education. Empirical research among 18 headteachers in a single local education authority in the English Midlands shows that some headteachers simultaneously work within…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Social Justice, Equal Education
Wallace, Mike; Tomlinson, Michael; O'Reilly, Dermot – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
Among western governments large-scale leadership development initiatives represent an increasingly deployed means of promoting the acculturation of school leaders to support educational reforms and ongoing improvement. England's sophisticated initiative centres on the National College for Leadership in Schools and Children's Services, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Government School Relationship
Mertkan, Sefika – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
The English education system has been radically transformed over the last two decades. Throughout this period, the New Right and New Labour government policies have embraced the rhetoric of empowering schools to become self-managing institutions. In the course of this transformation, school leadership and management have become exceptionally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government School Relationship, Politics of Education, Principals
Inman, Margaret – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
The literature on leadership in the compulsory education sector shows that there are multiple pathways through different stages and phases to becoming a headteacher. However although research exists on leadership in higher education, little has been written about those in "middle leadership" positions such as heads of faculties and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Middle Management
Woods, Glenys – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2007
This article reports findings from a study of headteachers and spirituality. It is intended to give some insight into the importance of spiritual experience as a phenomenon which enables leaders to be better resourced internally and find deeper meaning, and to provide evidence of the significance and influence of spiritual experience for…
Descriptors: School Districts, Foreign Countries, Religious Factors, Instructional Leadership
Webb, Rosemary – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2005
Case study data from six primary schools are drawn upon to examine the reality of primary headteacher leadership. Three alternative theoretical models of leadership are used to analyse the ways in which it has changed since the Education Reform Act (1988) and the implications of these changes for leading teaching and learning. Prior to 1988…
Descriptors: Models, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Principals
Flecknoe, Mervyn – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2004
This article examines the relationships that link student experience in schools, student outcomes, the nature of society and school leadership process. Each of these areas of study has its own literature and this article does no more than indicate where some of that may be read. The linking of these phenomena indicates a tight relationship, which…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Student Experience, Instructional Leadership, Principals