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Kiggundu, Edith; Moorosi, Pontso – School Leadership & Management, 2012
This article presents the findings from the evaluation of the pilot of a new entry qualification for school principals in South Africa. The programme, Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) School Leadership, had networking as a distinctive feature, and this article examines candidates' perceptions and experiences of networking as a leadership…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Admission Criteria
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Caple, Helen; Bogle, Mike – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2013
This paper investigates the use of new media technologies, in particular wikis, for the compiling and grading of group assessment tasks. Wikis are open web pages that can be viewed and modified by anyone with internet access and are well known for their collaborative nature. Wikis are also transparent, which means that any edit/modification is…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Group Testing, Grading, Technology Uses in Education
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Wellen, Richard; Axelrod, Paul; Desai-Trilokekar, Roopa; Shanahan, Theresa – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2012
This paper examines the pattern of decision-making, lobbying, and influence that led to the landmark series of federal student assistance policies introduced by Jean Chretien's Liberal government in the late 1990s. The package of new initiatives--dubbed the Canada Opportunities Strategy--not only partially reversed an earlier period of fiscal…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Stakeholders, Foreign Countries, Grants
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Tuomainen, Jenna; Palonen, Tuire; Hakkarainen, Kai – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
This article explores the networking roles and practices of special educators with the methods of social network analysis. This multiple case study included three special educators in a Finnish part-time special education context. The results revealed that although the special educators had central positions in the formal teacher communities as…
Descriptors: Expertise, Network Analysis, Teacher Collaboration, Special Education Teachers
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Naughton, Christopher; Smeed, Juliette; Roder, John – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
When converting from a paper-based distance mode to an online mode of teaching, certain expectations arise that students may engage not only in the development of extended research activity but that the quality of discussion and thinking will change. With access to open-ended discussion within the online forum the opportunity is afforded to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Summative Evaluation, Online Courses
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Mulcahy, Dianne; Perillo, Suzanne – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
This article examines the significance of materiality for management and leadership in education using resources provided by actor-network theory (ANT). Espousing the idea that human interactions are mediated by material objects and that these objects participate in the production of practices, ANT affords thinking management and leadership in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Vocational Education
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Zwijze-Koning, Karen H.; de Jong, Menno D. T. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2009
Purpose: Over the past ten years, most Dutch high schools have been confronted with mergers, curriculum reforms, and managerial changes. As a result, the pressure on the schools' communication systems has increased and several problems have emerged. This paper aims to examine recurring clusters of communication problems in high schools.…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), High Schools, Communication Problems, Organizational Communication
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Pitts, Virginia M.; Spillane, James P. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2009
Social network analysis is increasingly used in the study of policy implementation and school leadership. A key question that remains is that of instrument validity--that is, the question of whether these social network survey instruments measure what they purport to measure. In this paper, we describe our work to examine the validity of the…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Network Analysis, Validity, Social Influences
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Dorner, Lisa M.; Spillane, James P.; Pustejovsky, James – Journal of Educational Change, 2011
Guided by theories of institutions, organizations, and sense-making, this manuscript examines how public, charter, and Catholic school staff in a large urban area organize for instruction and respond to educational change. To build theory about institutional processes of "organizing" from participants' perspectives, data included a…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Catholic Schools, Federal Legislation, Figurative Language
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Shrestha, Celayne Heaton; May, Steve; Edirisingha, Palitha; Burke, Linda; Linsey, Tim – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2009
For many years, face-to-face peer mentoring has been a feature of learning support provided to first-year undergraduate students at one university in the UK. Building on the success of these initiatives, a scheme has been developed at this institution in which first-year undergraduates are mentored by second- and third-year students through a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Peer Relationship, Social Networks
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Juuti, Kalle; Lavonen, Jari; Aksela, Maija; Meisalo, Veijo – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2009
This paper analyses the use of various communication channels in science teachers' professional development project aiming to develop versatile uses for ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in science teaching. A teacher network was created specifically for this project, and the researchers facilitated three forms of communication…
Descriptors: Interaction, Science Teachers, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
Fox, Alison; McCormick, Robert; Procter, Richard; Carmichael, Patrick – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2007
As part of the Learning How to Learn in Classrooms, Schools and Networks Project, a mapping tool and associated interviews were devised to capture practitioners' views of the networks associated with their schools and local authorities (LAs). This article discusses the development and use of the mapping tool, including its trialing, and the first…
Descriptors: Maps, Instructional Leadership, Social Networks, Network Analysis
Gulson, Kalervo N. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2007
This paper attempts to make sense of a public-private partnership in London's East End. I am interested in how policy directions, in terms of cultural practices, may operate as links between transnational corporations and education provision, and, additionally, how concepts of space and place provide possibilities for different understandings of…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Private Financial Support, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Reed, Wayne A. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2007
This study examines the engagement of local teachers and parents in a low-income urban elementary school. Based on participant observation and interviews with 10 teachers who have residential histories in their school's neighborhood, this phenomenological study examines the ways in which the presence of teachers in the neighborhood and their…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Participant Observation, Social Networks, School Community Relationship
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Jopling, Michael; Spender, Barbara – Management in Education, 2006
The Networked Learning Community (NLC) programme has been a major research and development activity of the National College of School Leadership (NCSL). One hundred and four voluntary, funded school networks were set up following a process of bidding and selection operated by a core NCSL team, the Networked Learning Group (NLG). A second tranche…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Network Analysis, Social Networks, Shared Resources and Services
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