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The Principled Principal: The Case of Australian Steiner Schools
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Eacott, Scott – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: Steiner schools represent a natural experiment in the provision of schooling. With a history dating back more than 100 years, leadership, leaders and the principal do not sit easily with Steiner educators. The contemporary regulatory environment requires a "principal" or legal authority at the school-building level, creating a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Teaching Methods, Educational Principles
Of Hope and Despair: Neo-Liberalism and Schooling on the South Coast of England
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Chitpin, Stephanie – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: The present study contributes to research that examines the meanings of achievement gaps, when enacting policy. Its findings are both hopeful and unsettling. The absence of equitable outcomes and democratic citizenship, as elements of closing the achievement gaps in our participants' definitions, are troubling, particularly within the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Achievement Gap, Educational Policy
A Paradoxical Approach to Instructional Leadership
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Shaked, Haim – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: Perceptual inhibitors to instructional leadership are based on disagreements with the premises of instructional leadership. This study explored how the paradoxical approach, which advocates "both/and" approach to conflicting demands, may moderate the influence of the perceptual inhibitors of instructional leadership.…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Administrator Characteristics, Foreign Countries
Perspectives of Teachers' on the Selection and the Development of the School Leaders in the United Arab Emirates
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David, Solomon Arulraj; Abukari, Abdulai – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine teachers' perspectives on school leaders' selection and development strategies in order to propose/recommend strategies that are relevant to the context of the United Arab Emirates. Design/methodology/approach: The study gathered data through group discussion of school teachers who attended the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Personnel Selection, School Administration, Teacher Attitudes
Does Greater School Resource Allocation Improve Efficiency in Education Production? Performance Assessment of Spanish Public Sector-Funded Schools
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Salas-Velasco, Manuel – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to measure the efficiency performance of public sector-funded schools in Spain. Design/methodology/approach: Using school-level data from Program for International Student Assessment 2012, cross-sectional models were estimated using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Technical efficiencies of public…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Efficiency, Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries
High School Managements Resources Allocation in an Era of Reforms
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Tamir, Emanuel; Arar, Khalid – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine considerations employed in decision-making processes by Israeli high school leaders, when implementing the "Courage to Change" reform. The reform gave schools large supplementary resources in the form of "weekly instruction time" and they decided how to exploit these additional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Resource Allocation, Decision Making
Gender, School Leadership and Teachers' Motivations: The Key Role of Culture, Gender and Motivation in the Arab Education System
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Massry-Herzallah, Asmahan; Arar, Khalid – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: The research investigates perceptions of teachers in the Arab education system in Israel concerning the effect of their principal's leadership and gender on their motivation. Relying on Hofstede's cultural dimensions as an analytic tool to understand the Arab school, the purpose of this paper is to answer the following research questions:…
Descriptors: Arabs, Gender Differences, Leadership Styles, Professional Autonomy