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Promotion to Leadership, Not Just Merit, but Insider Knowledge: What Do School Principals Say?
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Kevin Steed; John De Nobile; Manjula Waniganayake – Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice, 2021
Whilst extensive research has been undertaken concerning educational leadership and management, there is a paucity of scholarship regarding the merit-selection of school leaders other than principals. This is especially true of principal-led merit selection panels convened to recruit middle-level school leaders, namely deputy principals, assistant…
Descriptors: School Administration, Assistant Principals, Teacher Leadership, Administrator Attitudes
The Struggle for Collective Leadership: Thinking and Practice in a Multi-Campus School Setting
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Anderson, Michelle – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
This article argues that while notions of collective leadership, such as distributed or shared, are nominally more inclusive, barriers to inclusive ways of thinking about and relating to one another will be multi-faceted (past and present) and formidable to change. This argument emanates from a critical review of research literature and an…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Leadership, Power Structure, Participative Decision Making
The Influence Personality and Leader Behaviours Have on Teacher Self-Leadership in Vocational Colleges
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Marshall, Glenn; Kiffin-Petersen, Sandra; Soutar, Geoffrey – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
Teacher self-leadership includes a set of individual cognitive and behavioural strategies that, when practised together, can lead to improved performance. This study examines the influence personality and leader behaviours have on teacher self-leadership in a vocational education and training setting. Survey data from 418 teachers from an…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Vocational Education, Leadership, Foreign Countries
Individuals and Leadership in an Australian Secondary Science Department: A Qualitative Study
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Melville, Wayne; Wallace, John; Bartley, Anthony – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2007
In this article, we consider the complex and dynamic inter-relationships between individual science teachers, the social space of their work and their dispositions towards teacher leadership. Research into the representation of school science departments through individual science teachers is scarce. We explore the representations of four…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Departments, Science Teachers, Teacher Leadership
Teacher Leadership: Interns Crossing to the Domain of Higher Professional Learning with Mentors?
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Millwater, Jan; Ehrich, Lisa C. – Australian Teacher Education Association, 2009
Over the last two decades, the notion of teacher leadership has emerged as a key concept in both the teaching and leadership literature. While researchers have not reached consensus regarding a definition, there has been some agreement that teacher leadership can operate at both a formal and informal level in schools and that it includes…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Preservice Teacher Education, Mentors, Community Involvement
Principal Leadership for Outstanding Educational Outcomes
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Dinham, Stephen – Journal of Educational Administration, 2005
Purpose: Aims to explore the role of Principals in producing outstanding education outcomes in Years 7 to 10 in New South Wales (Australia) government schools. Design/methodology/approach: Sites where "outstanding" educational outcomes were believed to be occurring were selected using a variety of data including performance in…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Principals, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement