Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 56 Issue 1

Responsibility, authority, and accountability in school-based and non-school-based management: Principals’ coping strategies

Yael Grinshtain, Dan Gibton

The purpose of this paper is to understand how primary school principals in Israel cope with the gaps between authority and responsibility in their work, deriving from partially…

Arab women’s educational leadership and the implementation of social justice in schools

Khalid Arar

The purpose of this paper is to focus on gender and social justice (SJ) among pioneer female principals and superintendents in the Arab education system in Israel. The research…

Internal vs external promotion: advancement of teachers to administrators

David Garland Buckman, Arvin D. Johnson, Donna L. Alexander

The purpose of this paper is to examine selection practices of school districts by capturing the promotion of teachers to assistant principal positions to determine if: there is a…

How do principals practise leadership for social justice in diverse school settings? A Hong Kong case study

Elson Szeto, Annie Yan Ni Cheng

Empirical research on leadership for social justice is in progress in many parts of the world. The purpose of this paper is to explore principals’ school-leadership journeys in…

Aspiring to break away from the same old Spanish educational leadership model

María A. Martínez Ruiz, María J. Hernández-Amorós

The purpose of this paper is to seek insights into the demands and challenges faced by school principals in Spain, especially in their dealings with local education authorities.

The best practices for school transformation: a multiple-case study

Zarina Waheed, Sufean Hussin, Megat Ahmad Kamaluddin Bin Megat Daud

The purpose of this paper is to explore the best practices of school leaders, teachers, pupils, parents and the community in selected transformed schools in Selangor, Malaysia.

Review of conceptual models and methodologies in research on principal instructional leadership in Malaysia: A case of knowledge construction in a developing society

Philip Hallinger, Donnie Adams, Alma Harris, Michelle Suzette Jones

Over the past several decades, instructional leadership has gradually gained increasing currency as a key role of school principals throughout much of the world. This is also the…

Distributed leadership and teacher job satisfaction in Singapore

Darlene García Torres

Singapore is a country with low teacher attrition rates and high performance on international assessments (TIMSS 2011/2015 and PISA 2012/2015). Consequently, its education system…