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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
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
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
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
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
Weinstein, José; Sembler, Matías; Weinstein, Marisa; Marfán, Javiera; Valenzuela, Paulina; Muñoz, Gonzalo – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
What differences are there, according to teachers' opinions, in school leadership practices between male principals (MPs) and female principals (FPs) in urban primary schools in Chile? A national survey has been done to address this topic, which was answered by the principal and five teachers in 381 urban primary schools. Following Leithwood's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Styles
Alazmi, Ayeshah A.; Hammad, Waheed – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
Research has revealed that appropriate school leadership practices can positively support and promote teacher learning. This study examines the influences of Learning-Centered Leadership upon Teacher Agency, Trust and professional learning in a Kuwaiti context. Following results from recent empirical research, this study tested a model of…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership
Rodríguez, Carmen Lucena; Cruz-González, Cristina; Segovia, Jesús Domingo – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
This case study investigated the strategies used by a school principal who successfully leads an educational centre in a vulnerable context. This article aims to explore how a school in a vulnerable context can be strengthened by the actions implemented by the principal and his leadership based on social and pedagogical commitment. Initially, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Professional Identity, Equal Education
Lee, Daphnee Hui Lin; Ip, Noelle Kwok Kwan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
This paper examines the influence of professional learning communities (PLCs) on informal teacher leadership in Hong Kong schools to overcome issues reported in the literature on the challenges to teacher leadership posed by Chinese hierarchical school contexts. We test the relations among PLC, informal teacher leadership, teacher focus on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Teacher Leadership, Barriers
Perceptions of Israeli School Principals Regarding the Knowledge Needed for Instructional Leadership
Shaked, Haim – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
Instructional leadership concerns the ongoing deep involvement of school principals in direct efforts to improve learning and achievement for all students. The goal of this study was to explore principals' perceptions regarding the knowledge required for instructional leadership. Study participants were 38 Israeli school principals, representing…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Tangonyire, Raymond Chegedua – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
Women and men are capable of effectively discharging school leadership roles. However, in Ghana, people are socialised to expect females to lead girls' schools and vice versa. Appointing a female or male to lead a single sex school that is opposite to their gender elicits gender stereotyping, protests and exclusion. While researchers have explored…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Single Sex Schools, Sex Stereotypes, Gender Differences
Ahmed, Eman I. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
This article reports the results of a systematic review of research on educational leadership and management (EDLM) in Muslim societies. Quantitative methods were employed to examine 362 articles published in eight core international EDLM journals. This review examined general patterns of knowledge production, as well as research topics,…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Educational Administration, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education