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Jones, Deborah – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
This article presents research undertaken with female headteachers in UK primary schools and explores several influential discourses in relation to female headteachers' identities. It considers themes inherent in women's narratives as they reflect upon their professional lives and discusses various identities inhabited by female leaders which…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
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Hoffman, Garrett D.; Mitchell, Tania D. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2016
Student activism has long been a mainstay on college campuses. Student activist efforts continue to demand administrative accountability around issues of equity and inclusion on campus. These movements demand engagement and support from administrators to honor the students' experiences and efforts as well as to respect institutional commitments to…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Activism, Inclusion, Equal Education
Spratt, Rebecca – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2016
The discourse of aid--its language, structures and practice--powerfully ascribes roles and attributes to those involved in aid relationships such as developed/developing, partner, recipient/donor etcetera. This discourse is driven by a complex system of diverse and often competing ideas, values, actors and relationships, within which individuals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Financial Support, Educational Finance, Government Employees
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Bates, Agnieszka – Critical Studies in Education, 2016
The imperative of continuous improvement has now become normative in education policy discourse, typically framed as setting "aspirational" targets for pupil performance as a prerequisite for gaining competitive advantage in the global economy. In this context, teachers, leaders, teacher assistants and other practitioners working in…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Improvement, Discourse Analysis, Academic Standards
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Avissar, Gilada; Licht, Perach; Vogel, Gila – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Using Critical Discourse Analysis, this study aims to elicit and expose the perceptions and attitudes of different policy makers in leadership positions at the Ministry of Education in Israel with regard to inclusion. The first stage of the research consisted of individual in-depth semi-structured interviews (N = 8). In the second stage the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Inclusion, Educational Policy
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Calma, Angelito – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2015
This study explores the narratives behind how academics in formal leadership positions perceive their roles as leaders and their leadership development. Fifteen leaders in their varying capacities as managers of research in their universities participated to illustrate the complexities and challenges associated with their roles. Using narrative…
Descriptors: Leadership, Leadership Role, Inquiry, Personal Narratives
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Tyler, Alison C. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2016
Suburban school districts are in the midst of rapid racial/ethnic and socioeconomic diversification, although the teaching force remains much more homogenous. This article examines how educators in increasingly more diverse suburban schools conceptualize diversity. Qualitative data comes from interviews of 40 teachers, 23 principals and assistant…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Student Diversity, Ethnic Diversity, Qualitative Research
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Büyükgöze, Hilal – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2016
The current paper primarily aims to investigate and interpret the observations, perceptions, and experiences of an effective school's principal through a qualitative approach. The study was designed as a case study. The participant of the study was a primary science education teacher with 17 years of experience in the profession who has been a…
Descriptors: School Administration, Discourse Analysis, School Effectiveness, Qualitative Research
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Govers, Elly – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
Ethical considerations are inherent to programme design decision-making, but not normally explicit. Nonetheless, they influence whose interests are served in a programme and who benefits from it. This paper presents an analysis of ethical considerations made by programme design practitioners in the context of a polytechnic in Aotearoa/New Zealand.…
Descriptors: Ethics, Program Design, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
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Mifsud, Denise – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2016
Policy discourse officially operates to distinctly influence public perception in an irrevocable and normalising manner. In a Maltese educational scenario of gradual decentralisation and increased accountability, I explore the "effects" of both the global and the local policy discourse of networks and networking on the practising…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Networks, Foreign Countries, Educational Administration
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Hadjisoteriou, Christina; Faas, Daniel; Angelides, Panayiotis – Educational Review, 2015
European societies rely on different models to address cultural and religious diversity in education, with different potential consequences for the experiences youth have in schools. Some prefer the term intercultural education emphasising dialogue and interaction while others have historically followed the idea of multicultural education. In…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Semi Structured Interviews
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Abawi, Lindy – Improving Schools, 2013
Using metaphor to clarify pedagogical understanding and to anchor teacher beliefs and knowledge to meaningful contextualized mental maps can have powerful consequences in schools. Frequent changes in school staff and clientele present schools with the challenge of how to share culturally specific messages quickly and effectively to those new to…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, Educational Innovation, Academic Achievement
Dorner, Lisa M. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
While much research has demonstrated that English-only rhetoric negatively affects bilingual education for the children of US immigrants, few studies have examined the local negotiations and discourses that shape the development of multilingual programming for English-speaking students. Across the USA, educational leaders and policy-makers today…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Self Concept, Educational Benefits, Second Language Learning