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Download full textLumsden, Linda – Research Roundup, 1993
This publication reviews five information sources about new designs and recommendations for principal preparation programs. In "The Landscape of Leadership Preparation: Reframing the Education of School Administrators," Joseph Murphy examines the nature of current problems in administrator preparation. He argues that before they can draw sound…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Mazzarella, Jo Ann – OSSC Bulletin, 1982
Identifying an instructional leader as a principal who engages in activities that significantly affect the learning that goes on in the school, this article profiles an elementary school principal recognized by the Oregon Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development as one of the state's most effective instructional leaders. The author…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Coordination, Curriculum Development
Bowker, Lee H. – Administrator's Update, 1981
The role of the academic dean, role conflicts, and the occupational experiences and performance of deans are considered. Role conflict for academic deans is related to clashing constituencies, role ambiguity, lack of correspondence between organization requirements and the personalities of incumbent deans, changing organizational needs over time,…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Conflict Resolution
Genthon, Michele; Joscelyn, Mary K., Ed. – 1989
Chief academic officers at 1,053 institutions of higher education across the United States were surveyed about the barriers to improving teaching and learning. Using factor analysis, responses were reduced to nine general problem areas. In order of importance from most important to least important, the problems identified were: financial support,…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Administrator Role
King, James C. – Streamlined Seminar, 1988
This pamphlet discusses group problem solving in schools. Its point of departure is that teachers go at problems from a number of different directions and that principals need to capitalize on those differences and bring a whole range of skills and perceptions to the problem-solving process. Rather than trying to get everyone to think alike,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Convergent Thinking, Creative Thinking, Discovery Processes
Zemsky, Robert, Ed. – Policy Perspectives, 1996
This article grew out of a roundtable of national leaders in higher education which explored questions regarding the role of, and trust in, institutional leaders when faced with seemingly insurmountable problems. The essay argues that while individual responses to change are certain to differ by institutional setting and circumstance, the very…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Attitude Change, Change Strategies, College Faculty
Smith, Hayden R., Ed. – Networks, 1978
This publication features sixteen articles that focus on the theme of collaborative decision making. The articles are concerned with: 1) effects of the lack of collaboration; 2) the trust, distrust, and political reasons behind collaboration; 3) collaboration as a critical democratic process; 4) mandated public school and community cooperation;…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Role, Community Role, Cooperative Planning
