This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the various leadership models applied in the education sector, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. The models of administrative/managerial, instructional, transformational, distributed, transactional, ethical, contingent and participative leadership are presented, focusing…

Effective staff collaboration in schools maximizes educators' collective capacity, improves educator and student outcomes, and facilitates school-wide improvement efforts. Yet, many school team members struggle to collaborate effectively. Previous studies have demonstrated individual and school-level factors that influence school-based…

Over the past decade, teacher autonomy has become increasingly significant due to its positive impact on educational outcomes. The study explores the mediating role of teachers' academic optimism in the relationship between school principals' empowering leadership and teacher autonomy. In this study, we proposed teachers' academic optimism as a…

This research aims to examine the trait leaders of FUDAOYUAN on teachers' perspective at Fuzhou University of Foreign Studies and Trade, to examine the leadership effectiveness of FUDAOYUAN on teachers' perspective at Fuzhou University of Foreign Studies and Trade, and to examine the demographic variables impact on trait leader and effectiveness…

This research aims to develop a structural relationship model of servant leadership among educational administrators that impacts the effectiveness of primary schools in northeastern Thailand and to examine the model's alignment with empirical data. The study is conducted in two phases: Phase 1 involves developing a structural linear model of…

This study proposes that special education teachers' perceptions of psychological empowerment serve as a meaningful indicator of school administrators' ethical leadership. The Perceptions of Ethical Leadership for Special Education (PELSE) survey instrument was developed to assess this construct, incorporating validated measures of procedural…

Teachers' leadership behavior has been demonstrated to play a critical role in students' motivation, learning and performance in school. Given its importance, we theorised and tested a model of the determinants for teachers to excel in leadership behavior in the classroom and beyond. Based on self-determination theory, we modelled the influence of…

Creative teaching performance plays a crucial role in enhancing educational quality and cultivating innovative talent suited for future societies. Grounded in contingency management theory, this study examines the impact of contingent reward leadership on creative teaching performance and its underlying mechanisms. Data were collected through…

The purpose of this review is to present what we know about paternalistic leadership (PL) in education. Systematic content analysis was adopted to identify the manifest and latent information across 29 identified empirical studies obtained through the core educational leadership and management journals and the two databases, Education Resources…

Comprehensive investigation of configuring effects of the learning-centred leadership that could sufficiently explain teacher outcomes has not been adequately addressed in the literature. Drawing on complexity theory, this study aims to investigate how the four dimensions of learning-centred leadership combine to lead to increased teacher…

The meta-analytic review builds on prior reviews that synthesised findings from studies of the relationship between school leadership and teacher attitudes. This review is distinguished by its focus on how one leadership model--principal instructional leadership--is related to multiple teacher attitudes: teacher trust, self-efficacy, collective…

Job crafting, which involves increasing job resources and adjusting demands, can enhance teacher motivation and, consequently, improve teaching effectiveness. However, little is known about the antecedents of teacher job crafting, especially in non-Western educational settings that are not sufficiently represented in the existing literature. The…

This case study explores the challenges faced by incoming principals who encounter unexpected situations along with the impacts on multiple stakeholders of leadership transition on a middle school campus. Leadership shifts are felt throughout organizations in diverse ways and may even have a personal impact on individuals in a school community.…

Students and faculty in higher education increasingly reflect more diverse backgrounds, but this diversity remains rare in many leadership roles. In Leading from the Margins, Mary Dana Hinton celebrates the unique strengths of marginalized individuals, inviting them to embrace their leadership potential and make a difference. Drawing from Hinton's…

This research aims to investigate the relationship between distributed leadership in a school and teacher commitment, emphasising the mediating roles of teachers' workload stress and teacher well-being using the Teaching and Learning International Survey dataset 2018 with 47 regions. Structural equation modelling on pooled and separate country…