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Shaddai Tembo; Magdalena Dujczynski; Mona Sakr – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2025
In light of ongoing inequalities within society, the role of social justice leadership in educational spaces remains a central arena amongst research and practice. It is widely recognised that clear recognition and understanding of social justice among educators can offer the capacity for meaningful change against inequalities that continue to…
Descriptors: Praxis, Racism, Social Justice, Preschools
Nechama Nadav; Pascale Benoliel; Chen Schechter – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2025
Relying on the social cognitive theory, which postulates that human behaviour is due to social experiences and cognitive interpretation, the current study seeks to investigate the mediating role of collective teacher efficacy (CTE) in the relationship between principals' systems thinking (PST) and school effectiveness in terms of academic emphasis…
Descriptors: Principals, Teacher Effectiveness, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
Nechama Nadav; Pascale Benoliel; Chen Schechter – International Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Purpose: This study examines the relationship of principals' systems thinking (PST) to student outcomes of academic achievement and school violence. The investigation relies on the contingency theory, according to which effective leadership is contingent on the nature of the situational influences to which managers are exposed. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Systems Approach, Academic Achievement
Obadiah Dunham – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite the attempts by lawmakers to legislate a closing of the achievement gap, persistent gaps in performance for students based on ethnicity, race, economic level, disability, and first language persist throughout public schools in the United States. Occasionally, a principal will receive attention for raising the performance of minoritized…
Descriptors: Principals, Public Schools, Achievement Gap, Disadvantaged
Westberry, Lee; Hornor, Tara – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2022
This qualitative study examines principals' perceptions of effective principal professional development programs and needs. Results from this research study are valuable because they can provide impactful insights for state departments of education, district leadership, and principals in the planning, development, and administration of principal…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Principals, Management Development, Program Effectiveness
Shamila Ramsookbhai – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
This critical qualitative study focused on what are the factors that contribute to high learner performance at a public school in South Africa. Purposive sampling was used and the data was produced via interviews with the participants (the principal, ten teachers, five ex learners and two parents) as well as observations of various school…
Descriptors: Principals, High Achievement, Academic Achievement, Public Schools
Ingela Bäckström; Pernilla Ingelsson; Anna Mårtensson; Kristen M. Snyder – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore existing and desired methodologies for systematic quality work to promote quality in preschools from the principal's perspective. Design/methodology/approach: A collaborative approach was used in this research project, and principals were asked to complete portfolio assignments. Their answers to…
Descriptors: Preschools, Preschool Education, Educational Quality, Administrator Attitudes
Dai Hongwu; Dennis Cheek; Tian Li – Distance Learning, 2023
We review existing definitions of "educational technology leadership" in China and find definitions that emphasize individual capability, the executive ability of leaders, or the understanding of a technical process. Educational technology leadership in China is often studied separately from the complex environments in which it is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Educational Technology, Systems Approach
Nadav, Nechama; Benoliel, Pascale; Schechter, Chen – Journal of Educational Administration, 2023
Purpose: The role of leadership through senior management teams (SMT) has received increasing attention over the past several decades. Such leadership requires principals to play a key role in promoting SMT effectiveness. Therefore, according to the input-mediator-outcome model (Ilgen et al., 2005), this study's purpose is to investigate the…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Administrator Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Leadership Role
Shaked, Haim; Schechter, Chen – Management in Education, 2020
Systems thinking can be explained as the ability to see the whole beyond its parts and to see the parts in the context of the whole. As a holistic management approach, systems thinking enables managers to cope with increasing complexity and change. Given the inherent complexity of school organizations within dynamic educational environments,…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Thinking Skills, Instructional Leadership, Principals
Bhengu, Thamsanqa Thulani; Mchunu, Bongani Sibusiso; Bayeni, Sibusiso Douglas – SAGE Open, 2020
This article presents and discusses the findings from five principals about their experiences of using systems thinking approach to school development. This was an ethnographic multiple case study that was conducted in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Literature demonstrates the efficacies of using systems thinking as an approach in dealing with…
Descriptors: Principals, Systems Approach, Experience, Foreign Countries
Alonso-Yanez, Gabriela; Friesen, Sharon; Preciado-Babb, Armando Paulino; Brown, Barbara – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2021
The theoretical framework for this study draws on conceptual advances from two bodies of scholarship: (1) complexity thinking in education, which has recently focused on school system change; and (2) school leadership research, which has recently attended to the effects of leadership interventions to school improvement. Using a complexity-thinking…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Educational Change, Urban Schools, Public Schools
Shaked, Haim – International Journal of Educational Management, 2022
Purpose: Adopting a multidimensional view is a characteristic of systems thinking in school leadership, which involves recognizing that each component of the school system necessarily has more than one cause, result or solution. This study explores how case-based learning has contributed to the development of adopting a multidimensional view in…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Systems Approach, Instructional Leadership, Graduate Students
Kolnes, Joachim; Øverland, Klara; Midthassel, Unni Vere – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The focus of this Q methodological study was to explore how professionals in the Educational Psychological Service (EPS) and schools experienced a system-based approach to expert assessment work. Forty informants from the EPS and schools sorted 60 statements about the assessment process. The following two shared viewpoints were identified: (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Systems Approach, Educational Psychology, Psychological Services
Nadav, Nechama; Benoliel, Pascale; Schechter, Chen – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
Relying on the contingency theory, the present study examines the influence of school characteristics and principal-teacher gender (dis)similarity on the relationship between principals' systems thinking (PST) and teacher withdrawal behaviours of absenteeism and intent to leave. Data were collected from two sources: 111 school management team…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Systems Approach, Teacher Administrator Relationship