Purpose: This study aimed at exploring the change facilitator styles (CFS) that secondary school head teachers in Pakistan possess. Design/methodology/approach: This is a quantitative study using Hall and George CFS questionnaire to collect data from 276 secondary school head teachers. The CFSQ used in this study consists of 30 Likert-type…

With STEM education garnering an increasing share of educational budgets and press, humanities teachers should consider how to respond to the growing power of math and science. Should humanists read the writing on the wall and tether themselves to the economic engine of STEM? Or should humanists separate themselves, retreating securely into their…

Home-based child care is a widely used form of child care. However, little is known about the heterogeneous group of caregivers that make up the home-based provider workforce and how they view themselves and their work. This study used role theory as a framework for understanding how providers view and navigate their roles. Qualitative interviews…

This Introduction to the Special Issue, "Teaching and Learning: Epistemic, Metaphysical and Ethical Dimensions," ponders the truism that education is of fundamental importance in human life--and its relation to philosophy. No credible natural-historic description of what a human being is could fail to give education a central place. Yet…

The role of strategic planning in land-grant institutions of higher education in the United States vary by institution. An ample amount of non-scholarly literature exists on the topic of strategic plan development; however, very little scholarly literature covers strategic plan development, implementation, assessment, or the relationship of…

Purpose: This essay explores the effects of school buildings closure during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on Chilean teachers' and principals' professional role and values, highlighting implications for reconceptualizing educators' professionalism for the post-pandemic era. Design/methodology/approach: Competing versions of…

The purpose of this dissertation is to address the issues of inequality and discrimination against women in the workplace. Issues that will be addressed are how women are portrayed in society, the roles they play in the household, and what changes have been made in the workplace regarding gender roles. This dissertation's goals are to acknowledge…

This article dives into the complexity of managing our "self" and our "roles," and how we can acknowledge the vast multitudes contained in each of our identities in our work as leadership educators. We wanted to incorporate a more conversational format to this article by highlighting the different ways ideas can be expressed…

Leadership is much talked about, written about, researched and celebrated. But followership seems to be leadership's forgotten companion, ignored, an embarrassment. It is true that dissent is an important element of followership and leadership. But the ethics of followership can only be understood if the 'direction of support' is recognised…

While andragogy varies in meaning and practice from one country and context to another, it usually refers to the field of educating or guiding adults. This article reflects on a novel viewpoint and role for andragogy, taking as its starting point the broader European tradition that includes social welfare and community development. Central to its…

Two issues pertaining to the use of metonymy that plays a central role in Slabakova et al. (2016) are mentioned in the very title of their study--novel metonymy and regular metonymy. In this article I draw attention to some problems with the identification of these as well as with the assumption that these are opposites of each other.

Counselor educators are well-equipped to serve as academic leaders, yet little is known about what factors influence their engagement experiences. This grounded theory provides a theoretical model of academic leadership engagement based on interviews with 20 counselor educators with academic leadership experience. Implications for facilitating…

The paper uses the heuristics of a spatial perspective of so-called Field Configuring Events (FCE) to investigate the question of how these new educational and project-related transfer and collaboration courses in higher education context can capture the fundamentally changed institutional role -- often called "third mission" or transfer…

If ever there was a year to prioritize and lean in on principal support to lead learning, this is it. Candice McQueen, CEO for the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, shares three actions principals and their supervisors can take to strengthen instructional leadership.

This article offers a way to leverage young adult literature in guiding students to consider the meanings of continuity and change within their own development. Borrowing theories of change from the evolutionary sciences, we developed a critical lens focusing on the role of technology in young adult literature. Based on a comprehensive review of…