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Negotiating and Constructing an Educationally Relevant Leadership Programme
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Giles, David L.; Smith, Richard J. M. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2012
Purpose: This article aims to discuss the conceptualisation process of developing a new one-year taught-master's programme in educational leadership at an Aotearoa/New Zealand university. Design/methodology/approach: The perspective taken is a highly personalised one from the two lead "drivers" of the programme and outlines the two-year…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Masters Degrees, Foreign Countries, Accreditation (Institutions)
Sustainable School Capacity Building--One Step Back, Two Steps Forward?
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Dinham, Stephen; Crowther, Frank – Journal of Educational Administration, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to serve as an introduction to and overview of this special issue of the "Journal of Educational Administration" entitled "Building organisational capacity in school education". The co-editors have solicited contributions from authors in Wales, Australia, Canada, the USA, England, Hong Kong and New…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Leadership
Building Capacity in a Self-Managing Schooling System: The New Zealand Experience
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Robinson, Viviane M. J.; McNaughton, Stuart; Timperley, Helen – Journal of Educational Administration, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate two recent examples of the New Zealand Ministry of Education's approach to reducing the persistent disparities in achievement between students of different social and ethnic groups. The first example is cluster-based school improvement, and the second is the development of national standards for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cluster Grouping, National Standards, Academic Achievement
Lay Governance of New Zealand's Schools: An Educational, Democratic or Managerialist Activity?
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Robinson, Viviane; Ward, Lorrae – Journal of Educational Administration, 2005
Purpose: This study investigated the conceptions of governance that informed the practices of school trustees, and considered the extent to which those conceptions matched the policy imperatives that shaped New Zealand's school governance framework. Design/methodology/approach: Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 32 participants in the…
Descriptors: Governance, Foreign Countries, Democratic Values, Board of Education Role
Training in Educational Administration: Development of an Area Resource Model.
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McLean, I. R. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1984
Describes the means used and problems faced during an effort to implement, maintain, and improve a national program for disseminating training in educational administration to secondary school administrators in New Zealand's Central Region, an administrative area containing 80 secondary schools, by depending on the first trainees to train others.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Radical Administrative Reforms in New Zealand Education: The Implications of the Picot Report for Institutional Managers.
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Macpherson, R. J. S. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1989
Presented are current statistics and a history of the New Zealand education system from the 1877 Education Act to the Picot Taskforce. Included are reform recommendations made by the Taskforce, particularly specific principal role expectations in the areas of facilitating governance, corporate planning, educational leadership, and management…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Role, Educational Change, Educational History
Restructuring of Administrative Policies in Australian and New Zealand State School Education Systems: Implications for Practice, Theory and Research.
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Macpherson, R. J. S. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1991
The administrative policies in Australian and New Zealand school systems have undergone radical changes in recent years. This article summarizes research into the origins and patterns of the reforms, their progress, and the problems encountered. Holistic reforms were intended to achieve increased economic efficiency, educational effectiveness, and…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Centralization, Change Strategies, Educational Administration