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Direct linkLipscombe, Kylie; Tindall-Ford, Sharon; Lamanna, Jodi – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
School middle leadership is a complex and increasingly important school leadership position, with research showing the significance of middle leadership to school improvement and teacher development. The purpose of this article is to identify and analyse empirical peer reviewed articles on middle leadership from 2006 to 2020, to understand how…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Power Structure, School Administration, Educational Improvement
Lebeau, Yann; Alruwaili, Jaber – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2022
The paper discusses the leadership and management challenges of a public university in Saudi Arabia from the perspective of academic managers. Based on a series of interviews at one of the regional universities established in the mid-2000s, the paper sheds light on one of those rarely investigated contexts where models of public management are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Higher Education, Public Colleges
Netolicky, Deborah M. – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2019
Moving away from the study of the principal as the central leader figure in schools, this article argues for an alternative narrative for school leadership. It draws on empirical data from a doctoral study to propose a new way of thinking about the school leader through the unusual metaphor of the Cheshire Cat. Examining the stories of 11 school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Instructional Leadership, Decision Making
Bush, Tony; Ng, Ashley Yoon Mooi – Journal of Educational Administration, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss the findings from research on the relationship between leadership theory and policy reform in Malaysia. Distributed leadership is normatively preferred in the Malaysia Education Blueprint (MEB), the country's major policy reform document. The research was conducted in two dissimilar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Centralization, Educational Change, School Effectiveness
Tsatsaroni, Anna; Sifakakis, Polychronis; Sarakinioti, Antigone – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
This paper theorises the field of symbolic control and reflects on the critical literature of policy studies, exploring the possibilities that the former might offer to the analysis of global policy discourses and their up-take in specific national and local contexts. Starting from the rapidly expanding literature on the "globalising"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Administration, Global Approach
Busher, Hugh – Oxford Review of Education, 2005
This paper considers the possible nature and membership of learning communities in schools and what evidence there may be of middle leaders trying to develop and sustain learning communities with their colleagues, even though these communities encompass asymmetrical power relationships between members. Although it is argued that students and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Management, Educational Change, Power Structure
