Within this article, we thematically present common challenges associated with the role of
the rural principal. In this literature review, we delimit our search to work published from …

The staffing of rural, remote and isolated schools remains a significant issue of concern in
Australian education. In this paper we provide a comprehensive account of the Australian …

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 …

Parent-school engagement is widely understood to be an important factor in children's
school experience and educational outcomes. However, there is considerable variation in …

This book is based on the largest and most extensive empirical study of contemporary
leadership in primary and secondary schools in England. The results demonstrate that …

The new edition of Planning Your Qualitative Research Thesis and Project provides easily
accessible worked examples and valuable models which can be used as guides for plans …

California's large rural population has unique attributes, with high proportions of minority
students and English Language Learners, and a growing percentage of economically …

We investigated the relationship between principal instructional leadership and teacher
participation in multiple types of professional development in Japan, Singapore, and South …

Complexity theory (CT) has had a meteoric rise in management literature and the social
sciences. Its fledgling importation into school leadership and management raises several …

School principals are increasingly working in an environment of work intensification, high
stakes testing, accountability pressures and increased managerialism. Rather than …