There has been limited research on how teachers, parents and students perceive effective
school leadership in practice. The purpose of this article is to present some of the findings …

The amount of empirical research on leadership of educational organisations, and
especially of schools, which has stressed the importance of being sensitive to context, is not …

Forty years ago, the discipline that we call educational effectiveness and improvement
research (EEI) simply did not exist in a recognisable form. There were some researchers …

The aim of this article is to analyse how teachers and principals experience their work in
small rural schools and small communities, with a special focus on contextual issues in …

This paper examines the preparation of school principals in Malaysia, and the aspiration of
the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013–2025 to ensure high-performing school leaders in …

There is a robust body of work highlighting distinctive challenges encountered by leaders of
small schools in pursuit of school improvement but this work has focused on the school as …

Purpose–The purpose of this study was to identify how current K-12 district and school
leaders who are alumni of an educational administration program describe how they …

This study builds on a set of Australian case studies exploring the impact of Place on the
work of principals and of the importance of Place in the preparation and development of …

Given the turbulence of the contemporary education environment this paper argues it is
necessary to adopt more flexible approaches to leadership than has traditionally been the …

This paper seeks to engage the field of educational leadership in a methodological
conversation. It outlines a methodological position taken by the author (a focus on …