Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 55 Issue 5

Emotional reframing as a mediator of the relationships between transformational school leadership and teachers’ motivation and commitment

Izhak Berkovich, Ori Eyal

Empirical evidence links transformational school leadership to teachers’ autonomous motivation and affective organizational commitment. Little empirical research, however, has…

Methodological review of studies on educational leaders and emotions (1992-2012): Insights into the meaning of an emerging research field in educational administration

Izhak Berkovich, Ori Eyal

The purpose of this paper is to do methodological review of the literature on educational leaders and emotions that includes 49 empirical studies published in peer-reviewed…

Inquiry-based leadership: The influence of affective attitude, experienced social pressure and self-efficacy

Lisette Uiterwijk-Luijk, Meta Krüger, Bonne Zijlstra, Monique Volman

The purpose of this paper is to improve the understanding of psychological factors that influence inquiry-based leadership. This study investigates how affective attitude…

Principal support for student psychological needs: A social-psychological pathway to a healthy learning environment

Curt Adams, Jentre Olsen

Although leadership evidence highlights the importance of cooperative principal-teacher relationships, research has not looked thoroughly at the content behind principal-teacher…

Teacher peer excellence groups (TPEGs): Building communities of practice for instructional improvement

Xiu Cravens, Timothy A. Drake, Ellen Goldring, Patrick Schuermann

The purpose of this paper is to study the viability of implementing a protocol-guided model designed to provide structure and focus for teacher collaboration from Shanghai in…

Principal workload: Components, determinants and coping strategies in an era of standardization and accountability

Izhar Oplatka

In order to fill the gap in theoretical and empirical knowledge about the characteristics of principal workload, the purpose of this paper is to explore the components of…

Picking a hill to die on: discreet activism, leadership and social justice in education

James Ryan, Stephanie Tuters

The purpose of this paper is to describe a study that explores the discreet activist strategies of educational leaders who promote social justice.

Autonomy and accountability in schools serving disadvantaged communities

Esther Dominique Klein

Increased school autonomy and accountability have been a common denominator of national reforms in otherwise heterogeneous governance systems in Europe and the USA. The paper…