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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
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
Service, Brenda; Thornton, Kate – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2021
Effective school leadership is widely acknowledged as having a positive impact on student achievement. However, there appears to be no deliberate process to sustain New Zealand principals' effectiveness throughout their careers. This article discusses the views of current and former New Zealand secondary school principals about their complex role…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership
Agasisti, Tommaso; Bowers, Alex J.; Soncin, Mara – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
This study investigates the existence of various leadership types in a sample of lower secondary school principals across Italy (n = 1073). Information is obtained using a questionnaire about instructional practices and leadership perceptions administered by the National Evaluation Committee for Education (INVALSI). Employing a latent class…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Leadership Styles, Secondary Schools
Murakami, Elizabeth T.; Törnsen, Monika – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
This study examines two female principals in upper secondary schools and the development of their professional identities, focusing on schools in Sweden and Texas, USA. The study is part of a larger international research project with global conversations about what successful leadership means, and asks: in what ways do female secondary school…
Descriptors: Females, Principals, Secondary Schools, Professional Identity
Dou, Diya; Devos, Geert; Valcke, Martin – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
This study examines the relationship between school autonomy gap, principal leadership, school climate, teacher psychological factors, teachers' job satisfaction and organizational commitment under the context of school autonomy reform. A path model has been developed to define the relationships between principal leadership and teachers' outcomes…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Institutional Autonomy
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
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
Wilson, Michael; Xue, Xiaomin – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
This article reports the findings of a small-scale investigation into the perspectives of Chinese school leaders (school principals and deputy principals) on their leadership learning opportunities. The research draws on key policy documents and semi-structured interviews within a phenomenographic framework based on a cluster sample of ten school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Leadership Training, Professional Continuing Education
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
Wanzare, Zachariah – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
This article reports some findings of study regarding practices and procedures of internal instructional supervision in public secondary schools in Kenya. The findings are part of a large-scale project undertaken in Kenya to determine the perceptions of headteachers, teachers and senior government education officers regarding the practices of…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Teacher Supervision, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership
Barnett, Kerry; McCormick, John – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
As secondary school environments become increasingly complex, shifts are occurring in the way leadership is being practised. New leadership practices emphasize shared or distributed leadership. A senior executive leadership team with responsibility for school leadership is likely to be one of the many, varied forms of new leadership practices…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries, Principals, Instructional Leadership
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
Cliffe, Joanne – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
The notion that emotional intelligence can be correlated with work success is well documented, particularly with regard to leadership in the business world. However, there are few empirical studies which detail the interplay of intelligent use of emotions in school leadership. This article explores the relationship between emotional intelligence…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Instructional Leadership, Secondary Schools, Women Administrators
Khan, Shafqat Hussain; Saeed, Muhammad; Fatima, Kiran – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2009
This article focuses on assessing the performance of government secondary school headteachers in the context of heads' leadership qualities, instructional behavior, capabilities of interpersonal relationships, professional attitude and managerial abilities. The small-scale survey was carried out in 2006 in district Mianwali, Pakistan. The sample…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools