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The LEA's Role in a Decentralized School System: The School Principals' View
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Addi-Raccah, Audrey; Gavish, Yakov – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2010
Since the wave of school reform decentralization, schools now maintain a more dynamic and diverse relationship with their environment than they did in the past. School principals' relationships with the local educational authority (LEA) are a prominent example of this change in Israel. LEAs try to gain more pedagogic influence over schools while…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, School Based Management, School Districts, Discriminant Analysis
The Power of Femininity: Exploring the Gender and Ethnic Experiences of Muslim Women Who Accessed Supervisory Roles in a Bedouin Society
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Quader, Sarab Abu-Rabia; Oplatka, Izhar – Journal of Educational Administration, 2008
Purpose: The current paper aims to tell the stories of six female supervisors who have successfully managed to access this high-level position in the Bedouin educational system, putting forward some implications for understanding and exploring the lives and career of women in patriarchal, minority groups. Design/methodology/approach: Six female…
Descriptors: Muslims, Student Attitudes, Females, Foreign Countries
Gendered Views of Managing Discipline in School and Classroom
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Oplatka, Izhar; Atias, Miri – Gender and Education, 2007
The current study explored male and female principals' views of classroom and discipline management from a gender perspective. Based on semi-structured interviews with 16 primary school principals from Israel, the study points to gendered views of school discipline, in that certain perspectives to prevent or handle discipline problems in school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discipline, Discipline Problems, Principals
Principals' Coordinating Strategies and School Effectiveness.
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Goldring, Ellen B.; Pasternack, Rachel – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1994
Examines the relationship between principals' strategies to coordinate organizational activities and school effectiveness. The dominant view of effective principals suggests that they generally emphasize tasks directly related to teaching and learning and exert influence to coordinate these tasks. Results of a study of Israeli elementary school…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Coordination, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
System-Wide Diversity in Israel: Principals as Transformational and Environmental Leaders.
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Goldring, Ellen B. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1992
Israeli principals are actively redefining their role and are evolving from routine-managers to leader-managers. This role change is reflected in four pivotal areas: resource allocation, organizational framework, governance, and market structure. Israeli principals are required to be environmental managers who mobilize resources and manage…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Principals' Leadership Styles as Change Facilitators in Curricular Related Activities.
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Avi-Itzhak, Tamara E.; Ben-Peretz, Miriam – Journal of Educational Administration, 1987
This study assesses factors that affect principals' roles in curricular innovation. A random sample of 69 Israeli principals participated in the study, which sought to estimate the predictive ability of policy, strategy, organizational, and background factors in explaining the variance of leadership styles. (TE)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Policy