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Peer reviewedFriedkin, Noah E.; Slater, Michael R. – Sociology of Education, 1994
Contends that, in the culture of professional egalitarianism that often prevails in schools, teachers are likely to accord power only to expert principals. Asserts that this can lead to weak coordination and control of a school's instructional program. Reports on results of a study of 17 elementary schools that support this viewpoint. (CFR)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Interprofessional Relationship
Download full textStiegelbauer, Suzanne M.; And Others – 1986
The process of change in elementary and secondary schools has been the topic of several major studies conducted during the past 15 years. To date, however, information about the change process in different school settings has not been considered comparatively. This document examines and compares the process of change and the role of the change…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Little, Judith Warren; Bird, Thomas D. – 1984
In this 2-year study, the assumptions and methods of role theory were employed to guide the description and analysis of instructional leadership among secondary school principals. This paper reports selected findings from the first year's work--a focused ethnographic study of instructional leadership patterns in five secondary schools--based on…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Educational Environment, High Schools
Jones, Alice M. – 1983
The purpose of this study is to clarify the role of internal and external factors in elementary and secondary school principals' perceptions of on-the-job stress. Variables include school location, school type, the principal's gender, and the principal's work experience. Of 300 questionnaires mailed out to New York State school principals, 235…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Board Administrator Relationship, Charts, Educational Environment
Barth, Roland S. – 1985
This paper describes a new approach devised by the Harvard Principals' Center for improving professional development for practicing principals. The approach is predicated on a novel conception of principals as life-long learners and on the proposition that principals themselves can and should assume major responsibility for all aspects of their…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Cooperative Planning
Murphy, Sheila C.; And Others – 1986
This document includes four papers presented at a symposium, based on a synthesis of five years of research--on the interaction of role groups and factors in the change process that are critical for school improvement in elementary and secondary schools. The papers identify elements of the change process crucial for the success of proposed changes…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adoption (Ideas), Assistant Principals, Change Agents
Bird, Thomas D.; Little, Judith Warren – 1985
This study examined instructional leadership in eight diverse secondary schools in four urban, suburban, and small-city school districts in one western state. The aim was to gain access to a set of schools that provided both variety in instructional leadership and diversity in school size, organization, grade level, faculty and student…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Case Studies, Decentralization
Oja, Sharon N.; Pine, Gerald J. – 1984
The Action Research on Change in Schools (ARCS) project was a collaborative action research study that involved two levels of research: a specific research project in each of two junior high schools in Michigan and New Hampshire, and a simultaneous study of the collaborative action research process itself as it relates to teachers' individual…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
