Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 36 Issue 2

Strategies of educational decentralization: key questions and core issues

E. Mark Hanson

Educational decentralization is a popular reform theme of governments around the world, but with motives, strategies and outcomes as different as the countries themselves. For…

Legalisation of education: implications for principals’ professional knowledge

Doug Stewart

In recent years there has been a significant increase in the involvement of Australian schools with various aspects of the law and this has led to a number of claims that…

The impact of personal, professional and organizational characteristics on administrator burnout

Walter H. Gmelch, Gordon Gates

The purpose of the study was threefold: to identify the most salient personal, professional, and organizational characteristics contributing to administrator burnout; to determine…

Women superintendents: strategies for success

C. Cryss Brunner

Despite widespread concern about the need to ensure that women succeed in superintendency positions, there is woefully little relevant literature. This paper presents the results…

Teachers’ receptivity to a proposed system‐wide educational change

Peter R. Collins, Russell F. Waugh

This study investigates teacher receptivity to a proposal to relocate Year 7 primary classes to secondary schools in the Western Australia Catholic school system. The proposal has…