Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 37 Issue 2

Short shrift to long lists: An alternative approach to the development of performance standards for school principals

William Louden, Helen Wildy

Many educational systems are currently establishing standards frameworks for school principals’ work. This paper critiques three current examples and describes an alternative…

Feminist educational leadership in a New Zealand neo‐liberal context

Jane Strachan

A qualitative, feminist, case study methodology was used to research the feminist leadership of three women principals of coeducational secondary schools. Information was…

Job insecurity among Israeli schoolteachers: Sectoral profiles and organizational implications

Ayalla Ruvio, Zehava Rosenblatt

In light of environmental and organizational trends toward privatization, and in response to changes in sectoral traditional differences, this paper investigated job insecurity…

Gridlock at the gates

B.C. Nolan, C.R. Nolan

In managing an organisation, the modern executive has a bewildering number of philosophies and theories from which to choose and a seemingly limitless selection of buzzwords and…

Perceived role of trustees: A study of higher education institutions in Ohio

Steve O. Michael, Michael Schwartz

While boards of trustees have statutory authority over higher education institutions in the USA, how these boards exercise their power varies. The literature of higher education…

The School, The Community and Lifelong Learning

Barrie Brennan