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Balasi, Aikaterini; Iordanidis, George; Tsakiridou, Eleni – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: To improve school organisational performance and innovativeness, and meet diverse student needs, school leaders should be innovative, risk-takers and proactive, thus applying entrepreneurial practices/strategies and market mechanisms. This study aims to investigate, from a schoolteacher's perspective, the degree of entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Principals, Entrepreneurship, Leadership
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Jones, Susan R.; Rowan-Kenyon, Heather T.; Ireland, S. Mei-Yen; Niehaus, Elizabeth; Skendall, Kristan Cilente – Journal of College Student Development, 2012
The purpose of this article is to present the results of a multi-site case study designed to investigate students' experiences as participants in four week-long immersion programs (New York City, Peru, the Czech Republic, Chicago). Results highlight the significance of the context of the trips and specific characteristics of the trip (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, Student Participation, Case Studies
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Dronkers, J.; Robert, P. – Journal of School Choice, 2008
The paper approaches the issue of school choice in an indirect manner by investigating the effectiveness of public, private government-dependent and private independent schools in 19 Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development countries selected from the PISA 2000 survey for this purpose. In a multilevel approach we estimate these…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, School Choice, Foreign Countries