{"title":"Networking among deputy superintendents – Window dressing or navigating complexity?","authors":"Lars Svedberg, Helene Ärlestig","doi":"10.1177/17411432241268251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17411432241268251","url":null,"abstract":"External networks among deputy superintendents seem to be an increasing phenomenon in a sector that faces a rapid change and a high working load. Is this the new way to learn and improve the organization or just a social gathering with little value? In this study, the significance of networking among deputy superintendents is explored. This group of middle managers is less studied compared to superintendents. The following questions have guided the study: How are their networks designed? What themes and issues do they focus on? What networks are considered relevant? The data for this study were collected through a survey of participants in a seminar series arranged by the Swedish National Professional Association for Superintendents. Networking appears to blend operational, personal, and strategic issues, intertwining practical matters with personal and professional growth to address present challenges and future requirements. Even if networking is seen as less formal it requires individual engagement as it is embedded in a process to become a professional space that benefits both the individual and the school organization. Networks appear to provide essential resources for navigating the complexities embedded in tangled logics and the frequently unpredictable processes that follow.","PeriodicalId":47885,"journal":{"name":"Educational Management Administration & Leadership","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141932928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Well-being of international school leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Lucy Bailey, Mark T. Gibson","doi":"10.1177/17411432241269412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17411432241269412","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of international school leaders. Drawing on a study of 13 leaders of international schools in 14 different countries, its key findings are that the pandemic resulted in increased stress, trauma and isolation for school leaders, and that school leader well-being is interdependent with the well-being of students and teachers. Yet, although student and teacher well-being has become a priority area post the pandemic, school leaders feel there is little or no attention paid to their own well-being. The data presented here suggest that more attention needs to be paid to international school leader well-being, for the benefit of all stakeholders in the school.","PeriodicalId":47885,"journal":{"name":"Educational Management Administration & Leadership","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141932927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Female school principals in Arab communities","authors":"Zeevik Greenberg, Ayala Cohen","doi":"10.1177/17411432241268326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17411432241268326","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes Arab women's choice of the teaching profession, their advancement to management positions, and their function as school principals in Arab Israeli society, which itself is in transition from a traditional to a modern society. We examined this process as it relates to the theoretical concepts of private and public spheres in the context of gender. The article is based on 22 in-depth interviews, from which it seems that Arab women's choice of the teaching profession was mostly a default, which allowed them to solve the dilemma between their desire for self-realization and society's demands upon them as women. It also teaches about the path forged by women school principals from the closed, traditional family sphere to the open and modern public sphere, which was previously open only to men. Their promotion to management positions drove them to be leaders of teams and educational processes, in addition to being social leaders in their communities.","PeriodicalId":47885,"journal":{"name":"Educational Management Administration & Leadership","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141882205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Principals’ sense-making and sense-giving of their professional role tensions: School leaders’ professionalism and creative mediation strategies during Covid-19 crisis","authors":"Sherry Ganon-Shilon, Ayelet Becher","doi":"10.1177/17411432241264693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17411432241264693","url":null,"abstract":"School principals are located at the interface between competing demands by a wide spectrum of stakeholders leading to tensions and ambiguities in their role. Understanding principals’ role tensions within organizational and occupational professionalism during Covid-19 crisis is of considerable importance for improving the capacity of school leadership. This qualitative study examines Israeli principals’ considerations and creative mediation strategies while facing competing accountabilities via the theoretical framework of sense-making and sense-giving in times of crisis. Using a collective case study design, data were collected via semi-structured interviews with 16 elementary and high school principals and policy documents, and analyzed thematically via ATLAS.ti software. The analysis surfaced three strategies and two considerations: (1) school leaders’ sense-making processes yielding protective mediation strategies based on retaining moral discretion; and (2) school leaders’ sense-giving processes transferring collaborative and contrived mediation strategies based on establishing the school's moral-professional cultural orientation. The contribution of this study to the research literature suggests contrived mediation as an innovative school leaders’ strategy. We provide practical implications within training and professional development programs for school leaders advocating principalship mentoring valuing uniqueness to experienced and novice principals.","PeriodicalId":47885,"journal":{"name":"Educational Management Administration & Leadership","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141769484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mehmet Şükrü Bellibaş, Farida Ryskulueva, Julia Levin, Marcus Pietsch
{"title":"A safe space and leadership matter for innovation: Exploring the role of psychological safety in the relationship between transformational leadership and innovation radicalness in Kyrgyz classrooms","authors":"Mehmet Şükrü Bellibaş, Farida Ryskulueva, Julia Levin, Marcus Pietsch","doi":"10.1177/17411432241264696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17411432241264696","url":null,"abstract":"The present research examines the relationship between school transformational leadership and innovation radicalness in classrooms with the moderating and mediating role of psychological safety, to provide an understanding of whether and to what extent the influence of leadership on innovation radicalness in teaching might be strengthened or weakened across various levels of psychological safety. Utilizing a dataset that included 5052 teachers working in 147 schools across Kyrgyzstan, we conducted multilevel analyses to test the proposed hypotheses. We found a positive association of transformational leadership with psychological safety and innovation radicalness in classrooms at the teacher level. Moreover, transformational leadership was more strongly related to radical innovation in schools with greater psychological safety among teachers both at the teacher and school levels. We conclude that school principals should prioritize the emotional state of teachers characterized by psychological safety by acting as transformational leaders, thereby enhancing the impact of their practices on the realization of higher innovation radicalness in the pedagogical practices of teachers.","PeriodicalId":47885,"journal":{"name":"Educational Management Administration & Leadership","volume":"154 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141769533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges in implementing instructional leadership: Insights from Turkish school principals","authors":"Ramazan Cansoy, Sedat Gümüş, Allan Walker","doi":"10.1177/17411432241263915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17411432241263915","url":null,"abstract":"The growing international literature on instructional leadership notes that its implementation often varies depending on cultural and contextual factors. Previous studies have indicated that while Turkish school principals demonstrate some instructional leadership behaviours, they frequently do not practice its key components such as shaping teacher professional development, goal setting, curriculum development and instructional supervision. This study used qualitative research methods, including interviews with 33 school principals, to identify and understand the major barriers hindering the implementation of instructional leadership in Türkiye. Factors such as a lack of authority, beliefs about the profession, workload, community context, inadequate resources and principal competency are key influences affecting the implementation and effectiveness of instructional leadership in Türkiye. The findings contribute to a broader understanding of the nature of instructional leadership in diverse cultural contexts.","PeriodicalId":47885,"journal":{"name":"Educational Management Administration & Leadership","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141745620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dayna S. Weintraub, Ralph A. Gigliotti, Tori Glascock, Gregory Dyer, Salvador B. Mena
{"title":"Relationship Between Student Involvement, Leadership, and Belonging Before and During the Pandemic","authors":"Dayna S. Weintraub, Ralph A. Gigliotti, Tori Glascock, Gregory Dyer, Salvador B. Mena","doi":"10.4018/979-8-3693-1507-1.ch011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-1507-1.ch011","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed the college experience; however, it also provided an opportunity to engage with and support students differently. The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed the college experience; however, it also provided an opportunity to engage with and support students differently. Participation and leadership in college organizations at many institutions has traditionally been an in-person experience; however, during the first two years of the pandemic, this practice shifted to a fully or partially remote setting for many colleges and universities. This chapter compares two years of data from the Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership (MSL) in 2018 and 2021 and explores the pandemic's effect on the relationship between student involvement and leadership experiences and feelings of belonging. Results show slight declines in involvement and leadership experiences and decreased feelings of belonging during the pandemic. The chapter concludes with crucial questions for leaders in education to consider regarding the cultivation of student involvement and leadership in the aftermath of the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":47885,"journal":{"name":"Educational Management Administration & Leadership","volume":"1 1","pages":"228-257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147911862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Donnie Adams, Jayanti S. Sothinathan, Norfariza Mohd Radzi
{"title":"Science mapping the evolution of middle leadership research, 2002–2023","authors":"Donnie Adams, Jayanti S. Sothinathan, Norfariza Mohd Radzi","doi":"10.1177/17411432241257893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17411432241257893","url":null,"abstract":"This systematic review aimed to examine the evolution of middle leadership research in a 21-year period, starting from 2002 to 2023, by employing bibliometric methods to examine the metadata of 181 documents. It summarised the key features of the middle leadership knowledge base by analysing its descriptive trends, distribution of knowledge production, key scholars, journals, and documents, and uncovered its underlying intellectual structure. The review offers insights into the development of the literature on middle leadership – a relatively new concept. The findings from this review would help scholars understand the nuances of middle leadership as well as provide insights to researchers on the current and future development of middle leadership research in schools.","PeriodicalId":47885,"journal":{"name":"Educational Management Administration & Leadership","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141195166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“It makes me get up and want to work even harder”: Stories of education leadership pathways","authors":"Elisabeth Kim, Jo Smith","doi":"10.1177/17411432241248958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17411432241248958","url":null,"abstract":"As a result of the increasing demands and the changing multi-cultural and socio-economic profile of schools, shortages of quality education leaders are a global issue. In the United States, this is particularly pernicious in urban areas, and traditional pathways to leadership positions pose an array of barriers. There is a growing need for culturally-responsive, critically self-aware social justice-oriented (CR/CSA/SJ) leaders who are better able to retain diverse teachers, more likely to stay in urban schools, contribute to higher achievement of marginalized students, and create inclusive environments. This qualitative study uses interviews to examine the leadership pathways of 72 education leaders at 28 intentionally diverse charter schools across five U.S. locations. Findings suggest that a range of motivations and experiences facilitated their pathways into leadership positions. Implications are relevant globally, at this time of increased awareness of historic societal inequities that schools can help combat.","PeriodicalId":47885,"journal":{"name":"Educational Management Administration & Leadership","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140888519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}