Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 43 Issue 6

Successful principal leadership: Australian case studies

David Gurr, Lawrie Drysdale, Bill Mulford

This paper aims to provide an Australian perspective on successful school leadership.

Conditions and practices of successful principalship in Shanghai

Kam‐cheung Wong

Aims to study successful school principals in China and to provide details of some unique features of the Chinese educational system that both support and constrain principals and…

Successful school principalship in Danish schools

Lejf Moos, John Krejsler, Klaus Kasper Kofod, Bent Brandt Jensen

Aims at conceptualizing and investigating the meaning of good school principalship within the space for manoeuvring that is available within the context of Danish comprehensive…

Sustaining success in challenging contexts: leadership in English schools

Christopher Day

This paper aims to report multiperspective research on ten successful, experienced headteachers working in a range of urban and suburban schools of different sizes (with different…

Successful school leadership: the Norwegian case

Jorunn Møller, Astrid Eggen, Otto L. Fuglestad, Gjert Langfeldt, Anne‐Marie Presthus, Siw Skrøvset, Else Stjernstrøm, Gunn Vedøy

This paper aims to identify what counts as successful school leadership within a Norwegian context.

Successful principalship: the Swedish case

Jonas Höög, Olof Johansson, Anders Olofsson

This paper seeks to describe the Swedish compulsory school system and explore a hypothesis about the relationship between structure, culture and leadership as preconditions for…

Successful leadership in challenging US schools: enabling principles, enabling schools

Stephen L. Jacobson, Lauri Johnson, Rose Ylimaki, Corrie Giles

This study aims to examine seven challenging schools in the US and the practices their principals employed in leading these schools to a measure of success in terms of student…

Understanding successful principal leadership: progress on a broken front

Kenneth Leithwood

To synthesize the results of the seven country reports covered in the special issue of JEA on successful school principalship.