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Postcritical school leadership encounters
Establishing quality education as a human right, public undertaking, and common good representative of humanity and the planet through imagining a...
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Governance mechanisms, school principals and the challenge of personalized education in contexts
Schools around the world are diverse and there are a variety of progressivist initiatives in place that aim to promote quality and equitable pedagogy...
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Toward agenda 2030 in education: policies and practices for effective school leadership
School leadership has been described as a key target for leveraging the quality of education in relation to sustainable development goal (SDG4) that...
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Educational Policy, Governance, and Leadership
This chapter investigates the educational policy and governance, and also leadership in educational contexts in Finland from the 1950s into today’s...
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Community-Based School Governance (CBSG)
One way to create democratic schools and learning environments is through decentralized school governance. CBSG has the potential to improve school...
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School Leadership in Denmark: Leading Education and Leading a School
In this chapter, we elucidate tendencies in and prerequisites for school leadership in Denmark. School leadership is often constructed within a...
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Why is school leadership key to transforming education? Structural and cultural assumptions for quality education in diverse contexts
Failing to recognize the role of leaders in quality and equitable schooling is unfortunate and must be redressed. Leadership is fundamentally about...
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Navigating the paradox of excellence and equity in school leadership
In this paper, I examine the tensions that a school principal experienced in reconciling performative priorities with equitable practices in a...
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Teachers’ and principals’ perceptions of school climate: the role of principals’ leadership style in organizational quality
In this paper, we report on teachers’ and principals’ shared perceptions regarding beliefs, rules, trust, and encouragement of new initiatives....
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Standards for School Leadership and Principalship
The critical role of school leadership in improving learning and teaching for better outcomes for children and young people is recognized across most...
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Challenges of School Leadership
While principals in all school settings require a plethora of skills and encounter many obstacles, it can be argued that the context of rural schools...
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School Leadership in Times of Uncertainty: A School Principal’s Reflections from Cyprus
This chapter offers insights into educational leadership in relation to school principals, who play an important role as leaders in this new digital...
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Rural School Leadership and Digital Technologies: Understandings, Applications, Challenges, and Solutions
Given the pivotal role leadership plays in organizations, especially during a crisis, there is a need to learn more about how much school principals...
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Systemically oriented leadership: Leading multi-school organisations in England
This paper takes ecological systems theory as a conceptual basis for defining and examining the main aspects of ‘system leadership’ in a large-sized...
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School Leadership in Norway: Key Characteristics and Current Challenges
This chapter discusses the role and practices of Norwegian school principals in a policy context of increased monitoring and regulation and in a...
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Practice of leadership competencies by a principal: case study of a public experimental school in Taiwan
Experimental education in Taiwan developed rapidly since the promulgation of the Three Acts Governing Experimental Education in 2014, after which...
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Innovative School Leadership: Impacting Aboriginal Student Outcomes into the Future
This chapter investigates the Australian research evidence on the role of school leadership in supporting sustained change in Aboriginal and Torres...
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The Education Leadership Challenges for Universities in a Postdigital Age
The executive leadership of universities internationally faces significant uncertainty in how to respond to ongoing technological innovation in a...
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Globalisation and Leadership in Schools
This book analyses dominant discourses of globalisation and leadership in schools. The chapters in this volume advance further the discussions of the...
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University managers or institutional leaders? An exploration of top-level leadership in Chinese universities
In China, higher education institutions (HEIs) have a governance arrangement in which the university president and the party secretary occupy key...
