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A minimalist design for distance learning
Colleen Carraher Wolverton, Brandi N. Guidry HollierThe purpose of this paper is to determine whether the application of the minimalist approach is appropriate in distance learning (DL).
Information technology adoption and implementation in higher education: Evidence from a case study in Lebanon
Abbas Tarhini, Jihan Tarhini, Anwar TarhiniResearch has shown that information technology has a tremendous effect on higher educational (HE) institutions. The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework that would…
School competition in Hong Kong: a battle of lifting school academic performance?
Maxwell Chun Sing Ho, Jiafang LuUnder-examination of the notion of competition between schools has created a considerable asymmetry between the reality and the literature of schooling. Therefore, the purpose of…
School leadership, teacher’s psychological empowerment and work-related outcomes
Kersti Kõiv, Kadi Liik, Mati HeidmetsThe purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of teacher’s psychological empowerment between school leadership style and teachers’ work-related outcomes.
A path analysis of diagnosis of organizational levels of functionality: Implications to educational organizations
Daniel S. Alemu, Deborah SheaThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which organizational level of functionality is affected by its leadership, its staff, the way task is performed in the…
Drawing up codes of ethics of higher education institutions: evidence from Italian universities
Giorgio Mion, Angelo BonfantiHigher education institutions draw up codes of ethics, but in several countries there are no standards to follow. Most universities have autonomy and can freely draw up their…
Push and pull factors influencing Mainland Chinese MEd students in Hong Kong
Alan Cheung, Xin Guo, Xiaorui Wang, Zhuang MiaoThe purpose of this paper is to examine the key factors affecting Mainland Chinese students pursuing a Master of Education degree in Hong Kong on their study abroad decision and…
Thematic analysis of marketing messages in UK universities’ prospectuses
Emmanuel Mogaji, Hyunsun YoonProspective students are exposed to abundant choices, and they are eagerly searching for information to select the best universities for themselves. Likewise, prospectuses are…
The scale of school organizational culture in Indonesia
Burhanuddin BurhanuddinThe purpose of this paper is to develop a measurement model in order to investigate sorts of organizational cultures (OCs) existing in school organizations.
Leadership as agency in the context of structure
Remigio Chingara, Jan HeystekThe purpose of this paper is to examine how principals, deputy principals, heads of departments (HoDs) and teachers as leaders exercise their agency within and through the…
Bungee jumping and rocket launching: Transformative learning for today’s transformational school leaders
Michael Christie, Susan Simon, Wayne Graham, Kairen Call, Yvonne FarragherA plethora of principal development programs based on myriad leadership theories currently abounds in many educational jurisdictions globally. Today’s principals, consequently and…
Decentralized decision making and educational outcomes in public schools: Evidence from Pakistan
Bushra RahimDevolution of fiscal and administrative autonomy to public schools is a global phenomenon now. Various models of school autonomy have been adopted both in developing and developed…
Local school governance and school leadership: practices, processes and pillars
Gareth Leechman, Norman McCulla, Laurie FieldThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the processes and relationships between school councils and school leadership teams in the local governance of 18 independent…
Mobility experiences of international students in Thai higher education
Navaporn SnodinThe purpose of this paper is to achieve a better understanding of the current phenomenon regarding challenges of and potential for increased international recruitment and…
Equity in education: the Israeli case
Zehorit Dadon-Golan, Iris BenDavid-Hadar, Joseph KleinThe purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it examines the extent of equity in the academic achievement distribution by analyzing Israeli students’ high school matriculation…
Intention to leave among bullied university personnel
Matti Meriläinen, Pirkko Nissinen, Kristi KõivThe purpose of this paper is to reveal the degree of intention to leave and the relation between bullying and intention to leave, as well as the relation between features of the…
Preserving or maneuvring leadership? Teacher unions’ strategies in Israeli educational regulation
Nivi Gal Arielyi, Emanuel TamirThe purpose of this paper is to examine why, despite the advantages they might gain by participating in regulation of teaching by law, Israeli teachers’ unions leaders abandoned…
The creative chain of activities towards educational management transformation: Findings from an intravention case study
Monica Lemos, Fernanda LiberaliThe purpose of this paper is to explore a formative intervention project that was developed for the Municipal Secretariat of Education in São Paulo, Brazil for the broad…
Middle leading small-scale school projects
Peter Grootenboer, Kevin LarkinThe authors argue that middle leaders are the key educators in school-based educational development. Schools often secure small-scale funding to engage in government or systemic…
Learning in higher education: towards knowledge, skills and competency acquisition
Geoffrey Gatharia Gachino, Genanew Bekele WorkuConsidering the importance of human capital in innovation, entrepreneurship and thus economic development, this study attempts to examine formal learning as a mechanism of human…
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- Dr Dong Nguyen