Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 34 Issue 3

Peer‐assisted leadership: reducing educational managers’ professional isolation

Marc Dussault, Bruce G. Barnett

Presents a study that verified the effects of the peer‐assisted leadership programme (PAL) on communication networks and professional isolation of educational managers. The study…

Collaborative power: A grounded theory of administrative instructional leadership in the elementary school

Rayma L. Harchar, Adrienne E. Hyle

Suggests that the research literature provides no clear perspective of the tasks needed for effective instructional leadership and no definitive set of traits for instructional…

Vision and leadership of principals in Hong Kong

Hong Sheung Chui, Fenton G. Sharpe, John McCormick

Describes a study which investigated the relationship between the vision and five dimensions of leadership behaviour of principals in Hong Kong. A survey was carried out on 48…

Creating school change: discovering a choice of lenses for the school administrator

Ellen S. Amatea, Linda S. Behar‐Horenstein, Peter A.D. Sherrard

Proposes a variety of different epistemological lenses for viewing the process of school change, for use by the school administrator. Applies these lenses in an actual case study…

Educational providers’ views of students who return to school

Graham L. Bradley, Juliette D.G. Goldman

Many young adults who drop out of school elect to re‐enter the secondary education system after a period of absence. Reports the findings from a survey of 215 providers of…

The involuntary push: University mergers and their effect on post‐graduate management education in South Australia

Christopher D. Martin

In Australia, the Dawkins green paper of 1987 supposedly set a clear framework for merging institutions in the new unified national system. However, neither the Commonwealth nor…