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LEADERSHIP AND THE HIGH SCHOOL DEPUTY PRINCIPAL

DOUG OGILVIE (Lecturer in Education at the University of Queensland. He was formerly a teacher in N.S.W. and Lecturer in Education at Lismore Teachers College. Dr. Ogilvie holds the degrees of B.A., M.Ed.Admin.(Hons.)(University of New England) and Ph.D. (Queensland).)

Journal of Educational Administration

ISSN: 0957-8234

Article publication date: 1 January 1977

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Abstract

At role conferences, high school deputy principals are continually re‐examining their role in the schools. Increasingly, in school level co‐operative evaluation programmes they are analyzing their work and its contribution to school effectiveness. This paper attempts to develop a classification that would provide a useful framework within which, at both system level and school level, they might examine their behaviour and consider modifications. From a Queensland study, five dimensions of leader behaviour are identified. They are Consideration, Classroom Facilitation, Staff Utilization, Authoritarianism and Routinisation. Other behaviours identified from the literature are Teacher Classroom Contact and School Management Maintenance tasks. These seven behaviours can involve interaction with either of two groups of people; clients and colleagues, thus providing a 14 segment grid that deputies might use to classify their behaviour when considering what they are doing in schools and what might be done better.

Citation

OGILVIE, D. (1977), "LEADERSHIP AND THE HIGH SCHOOL DEPUTY PRINCIPAL", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 15 No. 1, pp. 92-103. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009767

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