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The importance of department heads in the development of teacher support for school vision

Mahmood Abolghasemi (Researcher, Office of Graduate Studies, Ministry of Culture and Higher Education, Iran)
John McCormick (Co‐ordinator of Educational Administration, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
Robert Conners (Honorary Visiting Fellow, School of Education Studies, Sydney, Australia)

International Journal of Educational Management

ISSN: 0951-354X

Article publication date: 1 April 1999

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Abstract

Investigates how high school department heads may play a role in the alignment of teachers with a principal’s vision for the school. A survey study based on a theoretical position of the high school as a loosely‐coupled system consisting of departments with distinct subcultures and department heads who are influential leaders is reported. As expected, principal components and multiple regression analyses suggest that behaviours of the principal which emphasise and reinforce the school vision, predict the extent to which teachers support the principal’s vision. However, the congruence of department heads and the principal, in terms of school vision, is a much stronger predictor of teachers’ support for the vision. To a lesser extent, stronger structural coupling between departments also contributes to teachers’ support of the school vision.

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Abolghasemi, M., McCormick, J. and Conners, R. (1999), "The importance of department heads in the development of teacher support for school vision", International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 13 No. 2, pp. 80-87. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513549910261159

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