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Newly Appointed Principals' Professional Identity -- Insights from a Swedish Perspective
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Daniel Erik Nordholm; Maximilian Ritacco Real; Christopher Bezzina – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2025
The aim of the article is to explore newly appointed principals' professional identity formation in Sweden. By addressing five specific aspects of principals' professional identity, the article analyses how principals depict their 'knowledge', 'understandings', 'experiences and wisdom', 'values' and 'beliefs' in forming a professional identity.…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Principals, Beginning Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Successful Health-Promoting Leadership -- A Question of Synchronisation
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Skott, Pia – Health Education, 2022
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to identify the role of the principal in establishing a whole school approach for health and wellbeing. Two questions are asked: (1) What do successful Swedish principals do when they take on a whole school approach? (2) How do these results relate to previous research on successful school leadership?…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Principals, Administrator Role, Foreign Countries
The Power of Role Design: Balancing the Principals Financial Responsibility with the Implications of Stress
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Lindberg, Erik – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
The Anglo-Saxon countries have implemented Management by Objectives (MBO) complemented with school-based management (SBM) fairly rapidly. Although these countries are considered something of a benchmark of stability, research on principals reveals that they experience high levels of stress and that this is associated with poorer job performance.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Job Performance, School Based Management
Swedish Successful Schools Revisited
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Hoog, Jonas; Johansson, Olof; Olofsson, Anders – Journal of Educational Administration, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the results of a follow-up study of two Swedish schools in which, five years previously, the principals had been successful leaders. Had this success been maintained? Design/methodology/approach: Two schools were revisited to enable the authors to interview principals and teachers as well as…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Followup Studies, Principals, Instructional Leadership