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Direct linkLei Mee Thien; Seong Teng Chuah; Mei Peng Low – European Journal of Education, 2024
This study aims to examine which middle leaders' distributed leadership factors (cohesive leadership team, participative decision-making, leadership support and leadership supervision) are sufficient and to what degree these four factors are necessary for fostering high teacher commitment to change (TCTC). Data were gathered from 1018 Malaysian…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Power Structure, Participative Decision Making, Change Strategies
Download full textHarrison Dressler; Noah Pleshet; Daniel Tubb – Critical Education, 2025
The bureaucratic precepts engendered by modern universities produce a slew of negative effects inimical to educational justice. Drawing on historiographical evidence from the 1968 Strax Affair, a little-known protest held at the University of New Brunswick, we identify the arts of discombobulation as a novel approach to challenge the intellectual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization, Neoliberalism, Educational Philosophy
Ciren, Baizhen; Aadland, Eli Kristin; Hu, Aihua; Wergedahl, Hege – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
This article presents a case study on changing food practices from traditional cold sandwich meals to hot meals in a Norwegian kindergarten. Data were sourced from interviews, complemented by non-participatory video observation and observational notes. Building on Fullan's model for understanding a change process, this paper presents the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Food, Change Strategies
Peseta, Tai; Donoghue, Alex; Hifazat, Sameer; Suresh, Shivani; Beathe, Ashley; Derbas, Jasmine; Mees, Brooke; Suresh, Samuel; Sugita, Clementine; Arachchi, Thilakshi Mallawa; Nguyen, Evelyn; Johnson, Lexie; Clark, Sophia; Ramegowda, Rohith; Alford, Jen; Manthos, Maria; Jose, Chinnu; Caughey, Emma; Reed, Emma; Ashcroft-Smith, Max – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2021
Much of the student-staff partnership literature calls for increased collaboration and power sharing among staff and students. Less common are accounts by student partners themselves that take up the challenge of what partnership and power feel like as universities embrace their neoliberal trajectory - and - purport to do so on behalf of students…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Power Structure, Partnerships in Education, College Faculty
Demaertelaere, Yves; Van Acker, Tom – Childhood Education, 2019
How our schools are structured plays an important role in facilitating innovation. Transforming the field to best benefit students depends upon an organizational evolution.
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, Educational Innovation, Educational Environment
Riveras-León, Juan Carlos; Tomàs-Folch, Marina – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
Social and technological changes demand constant updating, this implies that schools must be prepared to face these changes. As a result, they need to have the capacity to innovate as part of their organizational culture. Although it is true, that not all schools are examples of innovative organizations, it is possible to identify some that have a…
Descriptors: School Culture, School Effectiveness, Educational Innovation, Principals
Ganon-Shilon, Sherry; Chen, Schechter – Management in Education, 2019
Educational reform implementation in today's fast changing world requires a critical transition from individual to school sense-making processes. Managing expectations from above (e.g. external demands) and below (e.g. internal school goals) while performing within multiple overlapping contexts, principals seem pulled in many different directions…
Descriptors: Principals, Educational Improvement, Holistic Approach, Educational Change
Rumeli, Muaza Shifa; Rami, Ahmad Aizuddin Md; Wahat, Nor Wahiza Abdul; Samsudin, Shamsulariffin – Asian Journal of University Education, 2022
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the education sector in Malaysia had undergone drastic changes and new norms are now in place. Among them are online home teaching and learning (PdPR) activities. This situation has become challenging and worrying especially in the primary school education sector. The Ministry of Education (2021) reported that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses
Lipscombe, Kylie; Tindall-Ford, Sharon; Grootenboer, Peter – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2020
Increasingly, educational systems are appreciating the importance of middle leaders leading educational improvement in schools. Schools depend on middle leaders to lead site-based educational development in areas including curriculum development, teacher professional learning and student learning improvement. Middle leaders are in a unique but…
Descriptors: School Administration, Middle Management, Administrator Role, Teacher Leadership
Lock, Jennifer; Hill, Laurie; Dyjur, Patti – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2018
A requirement for quality assurance is becoming more prevalent in higher education today as institutions are being asked to demonstrate that they are providing robust, meaningful learning experiences for students. Many institutions are adopting curriculum review frameworks as part of their overall quality assurance strategy. Three leaders at…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Curriculum Evaluation, Undergraduate Study, Expectation
Van Wyk, A. – Perspectives in Education, 2020
The purpose of this article is to report on research in schools to determine the views of teachers regarding points of which principals should take into consideration during periods of change in their schools. The research, based on a post-positivist worldview, was quantitative in nature, with one qualitative section. Eight hundred and eighty four…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Leadership Role, Leadership Styles
Hirsh, Åsa; Segolsson, Mikael – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
The current study reported here is one within a research project aimed at the identification of enabling and constraining factors in a two-year school-development project at a large secondary school in Sweden, where all teaching staff were involved in improving the quality of instruction through collaborative analyses. In this project a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Secondary School Teachers, Educational Quality
Poultney, Val; Fordham, Jon – Management in Education, 2018
This article looks at the potential of using an online self-completing inventory that measures leadership consciousness awareness. The Consciousness Quotient inventory (CQ-i) has been developed to encourage leaders to be more conscious of their ability to be accountable and responsible for their leadership practice. The CQ-i as a method for…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Participative Decision Making, Leadership Styles
Higham, Rupert; Booth, Tony – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
To what extent can heads use an inclusive values-led approach to school development in the face of pressures from Ofsted and their Local Authority to focus almost exclusively on attainment outcomes? We explore leadership of school improvement in a qualitative study of 10 head teachers in the English county of "Preshire," who worked with…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Values, Qualitative Research, Leadership Effectiveness
Day, Christopher; Sammons, Pam; Gorgen, Kristine – Education Development Trust, 2020
This new edition of Successful School Leadership brings in the latest evidence and material to what has remained a popular publication. While the fundamentals of what drives successful school leadership remain the same, new evidence further supports the arguments put forward by Christopher Day and Pam Sammons back in 2016. The growing interest in…
Descriptors: Success, Leadership Effectiveness, School Effectiveness, Educational Improvement
