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Exploring Systems Thinking in Schools: Mental Models of School Management Teams
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Chen-Levi, Tamar; Schechter, Chen; Buskila, Yaffa – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2021
Systems thinking (ST) is a holistic leadership approach that puts the study of wholes before that of parts. It focuses attention on how organization members act together in networks of interactions. This is done by researching organization members' mental models, which are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even mental pictures or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Administrative Organization, School Administration
Systems School Leadership: Exploring an Emerging Construct
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Haim Shaked; Chen Schechter – Journal of Educational Administration, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how effective school principals use systems thinking, aiming to present the systems school leadership (SSL) approach -- an approach where principals lead schools through the systems thinking concept and procedures. Design/methodology/approach: Participants were 28 Israeli school principals, selected…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Thinking Skills, Administrator Effectiveness, Principals
Theory and Practice of Distance Education. Second Edition.
Holmberg, Borje – 1995
This book provides a comprehensive survey of literature regarding the theory and practice of distance education (DE). Among the aspects of DE discussed are the following; overall picture of DE today (concept/evolution, DE and open learning, modes of teaching/learning); background (basic questions concerning education/teaching/learning and impact…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Education, Continuing Education, Correspondence Study