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Leading Pedagogical Reform: Australian Principals Tell Their Stories
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Simon, Susan; Heck, Deborah; Christie, Michael; Farragher, Yvonne – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2021
The tsunami of global educational reform in the past decade has led to national, regional and school-based policy redevelopment to elevate teaching standards, enrich student learning and improve results. Consequently, principals are frequently charged with leading mandated pedagogical reform in their schools. Building on earlier research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Transformational Leadership
'There Should Be More Cooperation in Setting the Policy': Israeli Stakeholders' Perceptions of Their Appropriate Role in Implementing a New Educational Reform
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Reingold, Roni; Avidov-Ungar, Orit – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2019
Effective implementation of educational reforms requires collaboration between stakeholders. The current paper describes and analyzes the findings of a qualitative research, which examined the perceptions of the three hierarchic levels of stakeholders, assigned by the Israeli Ministry of Education in 2010 to introduce and implement a new policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Program Implementation, Stakeholders
School Principals' Sense-Making of Their Leadership Role during Reform Implementation
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Ganon-Shilon, Sherry; Schechter, Chen – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2019
In the face of the dynamic tension between internal goals and external reform demands, school principals' role has become increasingly more complex and their sense-making more crucial. Yet, research has paid little attention to the significant role principals perform as sense makers in local reform implementation processes. This study explores…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Leadership Role, Educational Change
The Role of Self-Efficacy as an Attribute of Principals' Leadership Effectiveness in K-12 Private and Public Institutions in Lebanon
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Baroudi, Sandra; Hojeij, Zeina – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to explore the role of K-12 school principals' self-efficacy as an attribute for their leadership effectiveness in Lebanon. The Norwegian principal self-efficacy scale (NPSES) instrument was translated into Arabic and used to collect quantitative data from participants. Internal consistency of factors within this study was…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Mentors, Leadership Effectiveness, Role
A Holistic Look at Education of the Syrians under Temporary Protection in Turkey: Policy, Leadership and Practice
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Khalid Arar; Deniz Örücü; Gülnur Ak Küçükçayir – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2020
We sought to provide a holistic view of education of the Syrians under temporary protection by exploring two schooling models in terms of policy and practice for integration. Relying on social justice (SJ) framework as redistribution, recognition and representation, and on ecological framework, we adopted qualitative phenomenological approach with…
Descriptors: Refugees, Foreign Countries, Social Integration, Teacher Attitudes
Distributed Leadership in a Maltese College: The Voices of Those among Whom Leadership Is "Distributed" and Who Concurrently Narrate Themselves as Leadership "Distributors"
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Mifsud, Denise – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2017
In the unfolding Maltese education scenario of decentralization and school networking, I explore distributed leadership as it occurs at the college level through the leaders' narrative and performance in an investigation of the power relations among the different-tiered leaders. This article uses data from the case study of a Maltese college…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making, Transformational Leadership