Purpose The purpose of this paper is to synthesize findings from studies of principal
instructional leadership conducted in five East Asian societies. The authors first identify …

Just a decade ago a book that focused on culture and educational management would have
belonged in the domain of social-anthropologists. Cross-cultural analysis was simply …

Cultural heritage preservation has become a much‐debated topic in recent decades. This
paper contributes to the call for educational approaches that take a society's cultural …

In educational research, emotion has attracted substantial attention since the mid-1990s.
While there are many studies of teacher emotion in educational change in the West, there is …

This article is concerned with the influence of western educational approaches in non‐
western countries and societies. This influence is frequently referred to as educational …

Tens of thousands of Western 'teachers', many of whom would not be considered teachers
elsewhere, are employed to teach English in public and private education in China. Little …

Performance appraisal (PA) is a key human resource activity in organizations. However, in
this global economy, we know little about how societal cultures affect PA practices. In this …

This chapter problematises professional becoming through an examination of two principal
concepts–'becoming'and 'professional–'which underpin the chapters in this interdisciplinary …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of different dimensions of
instructional leadership on student learning in Hong Kong secondary schools, whose …

abstract This study empirically investigated culture's consequences on the major purposes
and practices of performance appraisal using a sample (n= 1749) drawn from the banking …