Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 59 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Haim Shaked, Chen Schechter

Undoing systems of exclusion: exploring inclusive leadership and systems thinking in two inclusive elementary schools

David DeMatthews

Most education systems were not initially designed to include students with disabilities. However, over the past 25 years, great strives have been taken to ensure students with…

Principals' systems thinking attribute: exploring a principal–middle leader relational demography perspective

Pascale Benoliel, Haim Shaked, Nehama Nadav, Chen Schechter

Relying on information processing and attribution theories, which relate to the formation of leadership perceptions and attributes, the current study seeks to examine the…

Hiding in plain sight: systems thinking and school organization

Sharon D. Kruse

The article asserts that systems thinking and its concurrent organizational processes are central organizing structures in schools, yet “hide in plain sight” and are therefore…

Creating successful and unique schools: leadership, context and systems thinking perspectives

David Gurr, Fiona Longmuir, Christopher Reed

Through discussion of research about the leadership of two schools, this paper explores the complexity of school leadership and how various contextual elements interact with the…

Systems thinking in school organizations – perspectives from various leadership levels

Lars Norqvist, Helene Ärlestig

The purpose of this paper is to understand how leaders within a school district system understand their own and others' leadership positions from the perspectives of systems…

Obstacles and opportunities for networked practice: a social network analysis of an inter-organizational STEM ecosystem

Yi-Hwa Liou, Alan J. Daly

This study responds to major administrative and policy priorities to support science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education by investigating a multi-sector…

Educational centralization as a catalyst for coordination: myth or practice?

Adam E. Nir

Using a document analysis methodology, the study analyzes official policy documents produced by the centralized Israeli Ministry of Education and by the State Comptroller…

Commentary - Systems thinking and educational leadership: implications of the special issue to school improvement in development contexts

Mohammed Elmeski

Commentary - System thinking, school leadership and complexities in Latin America

Jose Weinstein