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Ho, Jeanne; Shaari, Imran; Kang, Trivina – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
This article examines what vice-principals in Singapore experience as constraints to their leadership practice, and how they deal with these constraints, cognisant that role misalignment for vice-principals presents barriers to schools achieving optimal effectiveness. This qualitative study seeks to hear the voices of vice-principals, to uncover…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Assistant Principals, Barriers, Administrator Role
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Lee, Daphnee Hui Lin; Lee, Wing On – Journal of Educational Change, 2018
This mixed-methods study employed Hargreaves and Fullan's (Professional capital: transforming teaching in every school, Teachers College Press, New York, 2012) concept of professional capital to re-examine whether professional learning communities (PLCs) transformed instructional practices in contexts that endorse hierarchical cultures. PLCs that…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Communities of Practice, Transformative Learning, Educational Practices
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Hairon, Salleh; Goh, Jonathan W. P. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
Distributed leadership is one of the most prominent contemporary leadership theories in education. Its attraction in education is perhaps due to its potential to bring about school improvement. A review of the literature, however, reveals broadness in the way the construct is being conceptualized and operationalized; thus making it elusive. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Participative Decision Making, Power Structure, Factor Analysis