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Download full textBjork, Christopher – 2000
This paper examines the structure of administrative authority in Japan and America and explores how differing conceptions of the principal's role influence instructional guidance provided to teachers. In the United States, administrators are viewed as facilitators of a school's educational program and are expected to take an active part in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Educational Quality
Smith, Steven R. – 1987
Although there has been much interest in the United States about Japanese education, few studies have examined the Japanese school system from the teachers' perspective. This study investigated 143 Japanese and 386 U.S. high school teachers' attitudes concerning their work conditions, roles and responsibilities, and work experiences. An…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries
Bartell, Carol A.; Willis, David B. – 1987
Guided by interpretive ethnographic methods and by instructional leadership concepts, this comparative study of secondary principals in Japan and America discovers characteristics of excellent principals and examines their values in relation to dominant cultural themes. The investigation applies anthropologist Clifford Goertz's assumptions (1973,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
