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Jeanne Ho; David Foo Seong Ng; Puay Huat Chua; Norhayati Binte Munir – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2025
This paper examined leadership practices which supported the diffusion of an innovation in a cluster of schools in Singapore, through the lenses of complexity leadership theory (CLT) and ecological leadership. The approach is a qualitative case study, with the unit of analysis bounded by the innovation and a cluster of schools involved in the…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Leadership Role, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education
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Charlyn Y. Emata – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2024
The qualitative - case study aimed to unveil the supportive leadership practices of supervisors in the implementation of Early Language, Literacy, and Numeracy (ELLN) in terms of fostering learner-centered pedagogical practices; providing conducive learning environment; ensuring a balanced curriculum; capacity building; fostering multi-cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition
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Forssten Seiser, Anette; Mogren, Anna; Gericke, Niklas; Berglund, Teresa; Olsson, Daniel – Environmental Education Research, 2023
This study explored the function of school leading in the implementation process of education for sustainable development (ESD) in five Swedish schools employing a whole school approach (WSA). A follow-up study design was used, in which schools that had initiated an ESD project in 2016 were subsequently visited twice for interviews with principals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Responsibility, Holistic Approach, Program Implementation
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Jeffrey S. Brooks; Melanie C. Brooks – Educational Policy, 2024
The article advances an emergent framework for conceptualizing the relationship between principal leadership and education policy implementation. Based on a qualitative study of school principals and policy implementation in Region X of the Philippines, findings suggested that the way in which policies were interpreted and implemented at the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Principals, Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles
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Mizrahi-Shtelman, Ravit – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2021
Education policies are rarely implemented as they have been written or planned. Instead, school principals interpret and apply these policies according to their professional role identity and sensemaking. This study highlights the importance of the micro-institutional context. Specifically, it addresses the professional role identity and…
Descriptors: Role Perception, Professional Identity, Educational Policy, Principals
Derek J. Anderson – Online Submission, 2023
International schools aim to provide students with a multicultural experience, equipping students with a global-minded education to succeed in future higher educational or professional careers abroad. For students to succeed in international schools, native and international staff members should have a well-rounded knowledge of professional…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Action Research, Transformational Leadership, Departments
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Lim, Soo Mang; Ghavifekr, Simin; Kenayathulla, Husaina Banu – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
Dramatic shifts brought about by globalization, technological innovation, and data-driven decision-making practices are immensely reflected in the landscape of 21st century higher education. Learning Analytics or LA is an emerging multidisciplinary, technological practice with the ultimate goal of producing effective learning to improve students'…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Strategic Planning, Leadership Styles, Administrative Policy
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Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna; Geisler, Robert – Higher Education Quarterly, 2020
This article explores how public higher education institutions may design and implement new study programmes based on an example of a liberal arts programme adopted recently at a Polish university. Using a mixed-method approach (actor analysis, ethnographic thick description, and discourse and rhetorical analysis of communications), we approach…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Administration, Organizational Culture, Organizational Communication
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Allen, Kate; Hansford, Lorraine; Hayes, Rachel; Longdon, Bryony; Allwood, Matthew; Price, Anna; Byford, Sarah; Norwich, Brahm; Ford, Tamsin – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Background: The Incredible Years® (IY) Teacher Classroom Management (TCM) programme may reduce disruptive behaviour in the classroom and improve child and teacher mental health; however, few studies have considered how acceptable TCM is to teachers or what facilitators and barriers there are to its implementation. Aims: In this paper we examine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Teachers
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Dagnew Kelkay, Asrat – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate leadership practice of school principals and cluster supervisors in implementing continuous professional development (CPD) program. School principals (14) and cluster supervisors (4) were included in the study using comprehensive sampling techniques. A total of 305 teachers were selected from 14…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Supervisors, Teacher Supervision
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Ho, Jeanne; Ong, Monica; Tan, Liang See – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2020
Purpose: This paper presents a study on how professional learning communities (PLC) are developed in an Asian setting, and the nature of leadership that helped to cultivate and sustain PLC in this setting. Research Method: The study adopted a sequential mixed method, starting with a survey followed by qualitative case studies, involving focused…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Asians, Cultural Context, Sustainability
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Alvi, Gulshan Fatima; Rana, Rizwan Akram – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2019
The study aims to find out the relationship between the task-oriented leaders' behavior and organizational performance in higher education institutions as well as to identify that how a taskoriented leader will perform to face the challenges of the gaps between planning and implementation of educational policy reforms in higher education…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Higher Education, Planning, Program Implementation
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Gonzales, Miguel M.; Storti, Richard – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2019
To help promote a culture of innovation, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Telecommunication of Costa Rica established a national executive decree requiring all public schools in the country participate in the National Program of Science and Technology Fairs (NPSTF). This case study examines the role of five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Elementary Schools, Administrator Role
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Zala-Mezö, Enikö; Bormann, Inka; Strauss, Nina-Cathrin; Müller-Kuhn, Daniela – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
In this paper we connect the concepts of distributed leadership (DL) and educational change by asking: How do different practices of DL relate to change in schools? We answer this question by studying 12 schools in Switzerland during the implementation of the "Education for Sustainable Development" concept. In an embedded mixed methods…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Leadership Styles
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Jones, Sandra; Harvey, Marina – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
The higher education sector operates in an increasingly complex global environment that is placing it under considerable stress and resulting in widespread change to the operating context and leadership of higher education institutions. The outcome has been the increased likelihood of conflict between academics and senior leaders, presaging the…
Descriptors: Models, Higher Education, Leadership Styles, Change Strategies
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