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Shaked, Haim; Schechter, Chen – Journal of School Leadership, 2016
Systems thinking, a framework for seeing the whole, is an effective means of dealing with real-world problems. This study explored the sources of systems thinking in school leadership. Qualitative data were collected via 82 semistructured interviews and 6 focus groups, among pre-service principals, novice principals and experienced principals.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Systems Approach
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Thornton, Courtney H.; Jaeger, Audrey J. – Research in Higher Education, 2007
Civic responsibility as an ideal of higher education is rarely considered through a cultural and theoretical lens. Swidler's (1986, "American Sociological Review", 51: 273-286) framework linking ideology, culture and action was used in this ethnographic study of a research university (a) to understand dominant institutional beliefs about civic…
Descriptors: Role Models, Research Universities, Ethnography, Ideology