Educational leaders and the professional doctorate dissertation: an analysis of leaders’ interests within the educational leadership corpus

IF 0.9 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Research in Post-Compulsory Education Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI:10.1080/13596748.2021.1920261

Marjorie Ceballos, T. Vitale, W. Gordon

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Educational leadership scholarship, research on school individuals at the helm of achieving school goals, is well documented. However, less is known regarding educational leaders’ research in professional doctorate programmes, where practice may influence scholarship. This study sought to add to professional doctorate research by using directed qualitative content analysis guided by educational administration schools of thought described in a review of the literature to uncover educational leaders’ interests and concerns through an examination of 101 professional doctorate dissertations completed between 2013 and 2019. Of the 101 dissertations analysed, 88 aligned with the educational administration corpus. Educational leaders focused the majority of their research on school improvement and school effectiveness (65.9%), while leading teachers (5.7%) was of less concern. This result suggests that educational leaders with the agency or power to implement the findings from their doctoral dissertation may consider research in school improvement and school effectiveness as the most critical education administration school of research. Results from this study could be used by other educational leadership programmes to determine the prevalence of education administration research, examine the role of practice in research completed, and to broaden the scope of leaders’ research.

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教育领导者与专业博士学位论文：教育领导者语料库中的领导者利益分析

摘要教育领导力奖学金是一项关于学校个人在实现学校目标方面的研究。然而，人们对教育领导者在专业博士课程中的研究知之甚少，因为实践可能会影响学术。本研究试图通过在文献综述中描述的教育管理学派的指导下，使用定向定性内容分析来增加专业博士研究，通过对2013年至2019年间完成的101篇专业博士学位论文的审查，揭示教育领导者的兴趣和担忧。在分析的101篇论文中，88篇与教育管理语料库一致。教育领导者将大部分研究重点放在学校改进和学校效能上（65.9%），而领导教师（5.7%）则不那么受关注。这一结果表明，有权实施博士论文研究结果的教育领导者可能会将学校改进和学校有效性研究视为最关键的教育管理研究学派。这项研究的结果可供其他教育领导力项目使用，以确定教育管理研究的普遍性，检验实践在已完成研究中的作用，并扩大领导者研究的范围。

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Research in Post-Compulsory Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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期刊介绍： Throughout the world, there is a growing awareness of the significance of vocational and post-compulsory education and training systems. The majority of countries are working hard to develop their provision, recognising the importance of post-compulsory education in providing educated and skilled people in sufficient numbers at appropriate levels to assist economic and social development. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, sponsored by the United Kingdom"s Further Education Research Association (FERA), recognises the need for more international research and analysis and the generation of relevant theory in order to identify policy needs and trends as well as priorities in this growing area.