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Santizo Rodall, Claudia A.; Ortega Salazar, Sylvia B. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
This article discusses the type of organization and leadership that underlies a competency-based management rule established in Mexico (2008) applicable to principals in public upper high schools. This rule, identified as the 449 Agreement, describes competencies and communicates expected behavior. Implementation, however, is mediated by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Leadership Responsibility, Competence
Berkovich, Izhak; Eyal, Ori – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
Educational leadership plays a significant role in school success, through its effects on teachers' emotions, attitudes, and behaviours. However, the knowledge of how school leaders influence teachers' emotions is very limited. Most existing evidence focuses on general explanations that are not the result of controlled research designs, which is…
Descriptors: Principals, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Emotional Disturbances, Empathy
Ng, Ashley Yoon-Mooi – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
This paper examines the preparation of school principals in Malaysia, and the aspiration of the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013-2025 to ensure high-performing school leaders in every school. It reports on the principal preparatory programme, the National Professional Qualification for Educational Leaders, which is mandatory to those who aspire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Administration, Administrator Education, Principals
Yakavets, Natallia – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
This paper aims to provide an account of how school leaders in Kazakhstan learn about leadership and management, and what strategies are in place to support leadership development. The paper draws on empirical data collected over three years, derived mainly from interviews and focus groups with school leaders and teachers. The findings suggest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Administration, Governance, Teacher Attitudes
Sigurðardóttir, Sigríður Margrét; Sigþórsson, Rúnar – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
The article reports the findings of a qualitative case study in one elementary school in Iceland. The aim was to investigate the level of leadership capacity within the school, and how this had evolved through the school's improvement. Information was gathered over one school year about planned improvements that had taken place in the school over…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Semi Structured Interviews, Instructional Leadership, Observation
Preston, Jane P; Moffatt, Lyndsay; Wiebe, Sean; McAuley, Alexander; Campbell, Barbara; Gabriel, Martha – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to document the perceptions of school leaders regarding the technological use, skills, and attitudes of high school teachers. Using a qualitative research approach, 11 educational leaders from Prince Edward Island (Canada) were individually interviewed. Participants represented the Department of Education, principals,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Literacy, Administrator Attitudes
Miller, Catherine M.; Martin, Barbara N. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
This multi-case study sought to construct meaning using a cultural capital lens in relation to educational leadership preparation programs building the capacities of social justice leaders in demographically changing schools. Data revealed principals' perceptions about preparation, expectations and general beliefs and assumptions related to…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Demography, Social Justice
Branson, Christopher M.; Baig, Sharifullah; Begum, Abida – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
Although there is growing research evidence to support the view that the leadership practice of the school principal is the second-most important influence on student learning behind classroom teaching, there is no clarity about what, exactly, the principal is meant to do to ensure this outcome. Hence, Leithwood et al. (2010) propose that one of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Values, Student Behavior
Brooks, Melanie C. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
This article reports findings from a case study of school principals in Southern Thailand who work in areas targeted by Muslim separatist groups. Data were gathered and analyzed using a conceptual framework that conceived of trust as five interrelated constructs: benevolence, honesty, openness, reliability, and competence. This study builds on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Trust (Psychology), Community Leaders
Lenarduzzi, Grant P. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
The effect of critical incidents on school principals has been marginally investigated. Principal leadership has many pleasures, but it is often replete with problematic circumstances. The skilled school-based leader requires rationality and diplomacy to manage conflict successfully. This study examined the perceived effects of a critical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Superintendents, Personal Narratives
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
Kearney, W. Sean; Kelsey, Cheryl; Herrington, David – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
This article presents a mixed-method study utilizing teacher ratings of principal mindfulness from 149 public schools in Texas and follow-up qualitative data analysis through semi-structured interviews conducted with the top 10 percent of princeipals identified as mindful. This research is based on the theoretical framework of mindfulness as…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Instructional Leadership, Public Schools, Principals
Mattar, Dorine – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
This research aimed to find out the extent to which the instructional leadership style had been adopted by the principals in some Lebanese intermediate public schools. A small-scale survey approach was used where a cross-sectional study design was assumed. By sampling extreme cases (five high-performing schools and five low-performing ones), the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Leadership Styles, 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