The roles and responsibilities of school leaders continue to expand, with increasing demands placed on principals. At the same time, the primary role of the principal as instructional leader has been well-documented, presenting principals with the ongoing tension between expanding external demands and the need to focus on teaching and learning for…

This research aims to investigate the mediating function of psychological capital in the correlation between academic staff members' perceptions of organizational justice and dark leadership. A quantitative research method was employed in the study. The data was analyzed using SPSS v26 and AMOS 16. Correlation and regression analyses revealed that…

Leading for sustainable and future-oriented education requires agile educational leaders. This means that they must not only understand the interconnected complexities of education in the 21st Century, but also possess the relevant competencies to lead their educational institutions towards a sustainable future. This paper argues through a…

This book explores the implications of centering learning in university leadership. While a range of external and internal factors push contemporary higher education leaders towards a reactive and transactional style, the author argues that placing learning at the centre of the decision-making process orients this leadership in values. Illustrated…

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the entrepreneurial leadership as one of the modern styles of leadership in organizations. The concept of entrepreneurship constantly increases in business organizations and in educational systems. Large and strong businesses around the globe today are borne out of the creativity and effort of start-ups.…

Through a basic qualitative approach this study examined the leadership styles of superintendents to determine if the styles of leadership have a positive, negative or no impact on student achievement. The perceptions and practices of the leadership styles of traditional pathway and alternative (non-traditional) pathway of superintendents is also…

Purpose: Considering the vital role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in accomplishing sustainable development goals, this study aims to examine how and when sustainable leadership (SL) influences sustainable performance by examining social innovation (SI) as a mediating mechanism and managerial discretion (MD) as a boundary condition based…

The purpose of this inquiry was to understand how a building-level leader utilized context-responsive leadership practices to facilitate the transition from a building to district-level school leadership position. I used qualitative research methods to study the context-responsive leadership of a first-year assistant superintendent who…

The COVID-19 pandemic changed how organizational leaders managed their staff and handled operations. As those operational changes were implemented, the experiential learning theory (ELT) was practiced by the leaders, staff, and human resource development (HRD) practitioners. In general, employees' operational practices were created to work in a…

The ultimate goal of this study is to test the validity of the newly developed Sustainable Leadership for Learning Questionnaire (SLLQ) in terms of predictive validity on teacher satisfaction towards teaching. Apart from that this study also to test the convergent and discriminant validity of SLLQ. To achieve the objective of the study, a…

In mathematics classrooms, educators encourage both creativity and collaboration. In the current study we investigated the dialogical moves that made up the interactions of three groups of post high-school students who worked on an open-ended mathematics task. The aim of this study was to characterize collective strategic pathways that can lead to…

This paper explores instructional leadership practices in China. It has three interrelated purposes. The first purpose is to report data which contributes insights into how Chinese principals understand and enact instructional leadership. The second purpose is to examine how the societal context impacts the enactment of leadership and the third is…

Resident assistants (RA) receive training in multiple areas through curricular and/or co-curricular programs. Although co-curricular programs support leadership education, research has shown that student leaders better understand leadership theories and practices through an academic course (Sessa et al., 2014). The need for first-year RAs to learn…

Rapid growth in the health industry has made kinesiology-based curriculum a priority across campuses nationwide. With students continuing to enroll in kinesiology at an all-time high rate, quality coursework in kinesiology is an absolute must. Previous research suggests that students will get the most out of their coursework when their basic human…

In this study, it is aimed to examine the mediating role of school principals' management styles in the relationship between teachers' motivation and organizational commitment. In the study, teachers working at all levels of education in public schools in the city center of Isparta in the 2021/2022 academic year constitute the universe. Simple…