Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 53 Issue 5

Epistemological trends in educational leadership studies in Israel: 2000-2012

Ori Eyal, Noa Rom

– The purpose of this paper is to identify the epistemological trends in the Israeli Educational Leadership (EL) scholarship between the years 2000 and 2012.

Conceptualizing the critical path linked by teacher commitment

Jingping Sun

– The purpose of this paper is to propose a critical path through which school leadership travels to students by highlighting the importance of teacher commitment.

Relationships, instruction, understandings: one district’s implementation of rounds

Rachel Roegman, Thomas Hatch, Kathryn Hill, Victoria S. Kniewel

– The purpose of this paper is to show how instructional rounds contributes to shared understandings and facilitates the development of relationships among administrators.

Examining the role of emotional intelligence and political skill to educational leadership and their effects to teachers’ job satisfaction

Nikoletta Taliadorou, Petros Pashiardis

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether emotional intelligence and political skill (PS) of school principals influence the way they exercise leadership and the job…

Conceptualizing social justice: interviews with principals

Fei Wang

Today, as the understanding of diversity is further expanded, the meaning of social justice becomes even more complicated, if not confusing. The purpose of this paper is to…

Organizing education: schools, school districts, and the study of organizational history

Daniel L. Duke

– The purpose of this paper is to present a rationale for organizational histories of schools and school districts and discuss the findings of selected examples of the genre.

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