Catholic school administrators are asked to undertake many roles and responsibilities as the academic, spiritual, and managerial leaders within their institution, in addition to other emerging responsibilities. Little research has comprehensively described the expectations placed on Catholic school administrators. Therefore, this qualitative…

Reading instruction has always faced a high-stakes battle between supporters of opposing methods for teaching a child to read. Many of the debates center on early reading instruction. Principals play a vital role in the reading programs at their schools. Therefore, this qualitative study, using a single-case study design to inquiry, aimed to…

The author examines some of the critical issues raised by Baker-Bell (2020a) about language education in the United States. The challenges associated with linguistic justice are related to a history of linguistic discrimination in the United States, which many sources have documented and affected many different linguistic backgrounds and peoples.…

Despite the movement toward post-new public management in western countries, the new public (NPM) management model is still a popular managerialism adopted in many countries where the history of neoliberal governance is relatively short. While the principal-agent theory has been primarily used for analyzing education policy within the NPM context,…

This article explores the complex academic-administrative role of the associate dean in US higher education administration. Previous research in Australia, UK and USA indicates that these academic middle managers experience significant conflict and ambiguity due to their roles and responsibilities as faculty members and administrators. Victor…

Literature indicates that teachers' technology integration is affected by internal (individual feeling) and external (support from schools) factors. How the two levels of factors affect continuous technology integration remains unclear. Drawing upon the organizational support theory, this study thus proposes a multilevel model to examine how…

The increasing number of teachers leaving the profession has put a serious strain on the education system, and principals have identified various strategies they implement which could impact teacher retention. Prior research indicated that school principals play a crucial role in the retention of teachers by developing a supportive school…

This study examines the mediating role of teachers' perceived administrator support in the relationship between principals' social justice leadership behaviors and teachers' trust in principals. The sample of the study, which was designed in the relational survey model, consists of 903 teachers working in public schools in a metropolitan city in…

Purpose: This study aims to raise the issue of the president as the intellectual leader of the university in that they are the voice of the importance of the Humanities, both in inclusion and diversity measures, in decolonizing the curriculum and recognizing the importance of teaching life skills to students. Design/methodology/approach:…

The majority of studies into recruitment to the headship role have focused on supply-side dynamics and teachers' own accounts of the factors that (dis)incentivize them from aspiring or progressing to headship. Significantly less work has been done in analyzing demand-side factors. This paper addresses the gap by presenting findings from a…

Women in the field of education are strongly represented in the classroom but are much less likely to become school district superintendents. For decades, women have continued to attain the top district leadership role at a rate of slightly less than one to four, compared to their male counterparts. The purpose of this study was to understand how…

The value in Thai society influences the children to perceive that "the happiness" is the financial success could bring about the happiness. This arouses the children to be stressed about learning, to gain more knowledge, is the children's learning process developed by the educational system or taking extra course? Hence, the following…

This qualitative, phenomenological study examined the lived experiences of principals regarding their pre- and in-service preparation to be instructional leaders for their English learner (EL) population. With the growing, diverse EL population in our schools, principals are often finding it difficult to carry out their roles as instructional…

The COVID-19 pandemic, political polarization, and racial reckoning are but a few of the challenges faced by U.S. independent schools and their heads today (Bassett, 2010; Juhel, 2016; Rowe, 2021b). This basic qualitative study sought to understand the challenges facing heads of U.S. independent schools and how these challenges inform heads'…

The role of a manager within any organisation is often complex and multifaceted. Overtime management theory has developed in an effort to appreciate these complexities and suggest frameworks from which managers should operate. However, should management and the role of a manager be considered generic? Or, instead should we appreciate the…