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Schechter, Chen; Shaked, Haim; Ganon-Shilon, Sherry; Goldratt, Miri – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2018
During reforms, principals often experience ambiguity, contradicting demands, and lack of information. As critical change agents and system players, principals interpret reform demands and translate them into school practices through a process of sense-making. The current qualitative research explored 59 elementary school principals' sense-making…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Change, Change Agents
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Blau, Ina; Grinberg, Ronen; Shamir-Inbal, Tamar – Computers in the Schools, 2018
This study examines the meaning attributed to the contribution of technology to pedagogical practices from the perspective of school ICT leaders. While previous studies use metaphors for bottom-up exploration, this study employs an innovative combination of bottom-up and top-down metaphor analysis based on two frameworks: (a) metaphors of general…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Influence of Technology, Semi Structured Interviews, Coordinators
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Ganon-Shilon, Sherry; Schechter, Chen – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
Principals' implementation of national reforms in the educational arena resembles a wild ride on a roller coaster as they face with contradicting demands, ongoing confusion and ambiguity. As critical change agents, principals interpret and translate reform demands into local practices through a process of sense-making. This current qualitative…
Descriptors: Principals, High Schools, Transformational Leadership, Figurative Language
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Schechter, Chen; Firuz, Florit – School Leadership & Management, 2015
The study focused on how principal mentors perceived the mentoring process by means of the metaphors they used to represent it. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 18 principal mentors. Findings were analysed qualitatively, generating themes as an inductive process, grounded in the various metaphors articulated by participants.…
Descriptors: Mentors, Principals, Figurative Language, Semi Structured Interviews