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Ghirmai, Daniel Jambo; Fessehatsion, Petros Woldu – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
This study explores the link between principals' leadership practices and learning achievements from a distributed leadership perspective, using semi-structured interviews with TVET supervisors, middle leaders, and teachers. A detailed discussion on how school principals actually practised distributed leadership (DL) and how these practices…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Leadership Styles, Vocational Education
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Berkovich, Izhak – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
This study adopts a structural perspective to explore micro-politics in senior management teams and identify the principals' inner circle. Based on data from an Israeli random sample of state primary teachers, profiles of trust in principal are identified and used to break down the subgroups of teachers serving in various roles in senior…
Descriptors: Politics, Administrators, Middle Management, Principals
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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
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Ho, Jeanne; Ng, David – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2017
Purpose: This article proposes the utility of using activity theory as an analytical lens to examine the theoretical construct of distributed leadership, specifically to illuminate tensions encountered by leaders and how they resolved these tensions. Research Method: The study adopted the naturalistic inquiry approach of a case study of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Participative Decision Making, Inquiry
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Farchi, Talmor; Tubin, Dorit – School Leadership & Management, 2019
All large high schools have teachers in middle tier roles who help run the school, and subject leaders (SLs) who engage in administrative and pedagogical practices to improve departmental achievements. By applying structuration theory (Giddens, 1984. "The constitution of society: Outline of the theory of structuration." Berkeley, CA:…
Descriptors: Middle Management, School Effectiveness, Administrator Behavior, Teacher Leadership
Yukl, Gary – 1982
To help relate management ideas and knowledge to educational administration, the author reviews the major theories and findings from the last 20 years on managerial leadership and discusses their relevance for school principals. He first summarizes findings from three approaches: the traits approach, emphasizing managerial motivation and skills;…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Behavior, Behavior Theories