1.Volume 43 Number 1 January 2015

Contents

Editorial

Building pictures of the filed through research overviews
Tony Bush

Articles
Review of research on educational leadership and management in Asia: A comparative analysis of research topics and methods, 1955-2012
Phillip Hallinger and Junjun Chen

School leaders’ gender strategies: Caught in a discriminatory web
Jacky Lumby

From one school to many: Reflections on the impact and nature of school federations and chains in England
Christopher Chapman

Support and challenge for school leaders: Headteahers’ perceptions of how school improvement partners
Sue Swaffield

From commissar to auctioneer? The changing role of directors in managing children’s services in a period of austerity
Rob Hulme, Jane Mckay and David Cacknell

The importance of affective containment during unwelcome educational change: The curious incident of the deer hut fire
Di Dale and Chris James

Personal values of principals and their manifestation in student behaviour: A district-level study in Pakistan
Christopher M Branson, Sharifullah Baig and Abida Begum

Principal preparedness for leading in demographically changing schools: Where is the social justice training?
Catherine M Miller and Barbara N Martin

Distributing leadership to establish developing and learning school organizations in the Swedish context
Mette Lijenberg


Book Review

Women leaders in Higher Education. Shattering the Myths,
By Tanya Fitzgerald
Reviewed by Ghada Angawi



2. Volume 42 Number 5 January 2014

Editorial

Applying distributed leadership across contexts
Tony Bush

Articles
Synthesizing theory and practice: Distributed leadership in higher education
Sandra Jones, marina Harvey, Geraldine Lefoe and Kevin Ryland

Professional identities of middle managers: A case study in the faculty of health and social care
Annette Thomas-Gregory

A general model of organizational values in educational administration
Robin Alison Mueller

School leadership that builds teacher social capital
Cheri Hoff Minckler

Learning leadership matters: The influence of innovative school leadership preparation on teachers’ experiences and outcomes
Stelios Orphanos and Margaret Terry Orr

The role and role context of the Lebanese school principal: Toward a culturally grounded understanding of the principalship
Rima Karami Akkary

How a ‘top-performing’ Asian school system formulates and implements policy: The case of Singapore
Cheng Yong Tan and Clive Dimmock

A study of female central office administrators and their aspirations to the superintendency
Ava J Munoz, Anita Pankake, Elizabeth Murakami Ramalho, Shirley Mills and Marie Simonsson





3. Volume 42 Number 4(Supplement) July 2014

Special Themed Issue on School Leadership in Europe

Editorial

School leadership in Europe: growing the field
Tony Bush

Articles

Development of a measurement for transformational and transactional leadership in schools taking on a school-based intervention
Constance Oterkiil and Sigrun K Ertesvag

The role of the principal’s emotional intelligence in primary education leadership
Vasiliki Brinia, Lina Zimianiti and Konstantinos Panagiotopolus

Roles and skills comparison among principals in Greek schools: Application of competing values framework
Akrivolua Geraki

Facing the ‘challenge’: School leadership intercultural schools
Christina Hajisoterious and Panayiotis Angelides

Leading for sustainability in Western Australian regional schools
Coral Pepper

Educational leadership and market values: A study of school principals in Iceland
Steinunn Helga Larusdottir

Leading the small rural school in Iceland and Australia: Building leadership capacity
Helen Wildy, Sigriour Margret Siguroardottir and Robert Faulkner

Italian education beyond hierarchy: Governance, evaluation and headship
Emiliano Grimaldi and Roberto Serpieri

Are school based boards aware of the educational quality of their schools?
Edith Hooge and Marlies Honongh

The problematic implementation of teacher evaluation policy: School failure or governmental pitfall?
Melissa Tuytens and Geert Devos




4. Volume 42 Number 4 July 2014

Editorial

Instructional and transformational leadership: Alternative and complementary model?
Tony Bush

Articles
Comparing the effects of instructional and transformational leadership on student achievement: implications for practice
Ryan H Shatzer, Paul Caldarella, Pamela R Hallam and Bruce L Brown

Superintendents’ perceptions of the school improvement planning process in the southeastern USA
David M Dunaway, James J Bird, Cuang Wang and Dawson Hancock

Scaffolding leadership for learning in school education: Insights from a factor analysis of research conducted in Australian independent schools
Scott Marsh, Manjul Waniganyake and Ian W Gibson

“It all comes down to the leadership”: The role of the school principal in fostering parent-school engagement
Jenny Barr and Sue Saltmarsh

Leading for sustainability in Western Australian regional schools
Coral Pepper

Principals’ and teachers’ views of spirituality in principal leadership in three primary schools
Alaster Gibson

Commonalities and specificities of authentic leadership in Ghana and New Zealand Justice Owusus-Bempah, Ramzi Addison and John Fairweather


Examining school culture in Flemish and Chinese primary schools
Chnag Zhu, Geert Devos and Jo Tondeur

Iranian teachers’ perception of teacher leadership practices in schools
Mohammad Aliakbari and Aghdas Sadeghi
 
5. Volume 42 Number 3 May 2014

Special Issue: Structural reform in England: Emerging configurations of governance and leadership in the new ‘local’

Editorial
Structural reform in England: Emerging configurations of governance and leadership in the new ‘local’
Tim Simkins and Philip Woods

Articles

Understanding the local: Themes and issues in the experience of structural reform in England
Philip Woods and Tim Simkins

Local responses to national policy: The contrasting experiences of two Midlands cities to the Academics Act 2010
Penny Smith and Ian Abbott

Local authorities and the school system: The new authority-wide partnerships
Richard Hatcher

Exploring governance in two chains of academy schools: A comparative case study
Maija Salokangas and Christopher Chapman

The restructuring of schooling in England: The responses of well-positioned headteachers
John Coldron, Megan Crawford, Steve Jones and Tim Simkins

‘Who owns our schools?’ An analysis of the governance of free schools in England
Rob Higham

Re-making the middle: Dis-intermediation in international context
Christopher Lubienski



6. Volume 42 Number 2 March 2014

Editorial
Emotional leadership; A viable alternative to bureaucratic assumptions?
Tony Bush

Articles

Emotion in leadership: Secondary school administrators’ perceptions of critical incidents
Julie k. Yamamoto, Mary E. Gardiner and Penny L. Tenuto

Role stress revisited: Job structuring antecedents, work outcomes, and moderating effects of locus of control
Sharon Conley and Sukkyung You

Exploring ethical dilemmas for principals arising from role conflict with school counsellors
Megan Kimber and Marilyn Campbell

In search of leadership: What happened to management?
Sefika Mertkan

What matters to principals when they evaluate teachers? Evidence from Cyprus
Stelios Orphanos

Teacher unionism and school management: A study of (Eastern Cape) schools in South Africa
Vuyisile Msila

Master teachers as professional developers: Managing conflicting versions of professionalism
Carmen Montecinos, Mauricio Pino, Javier Campos-Martinez, Rosario Dominguez and Claudia Carreno

Dilemmas of leading national curriculum reform in a global era: A Chinese perspective
Hongbiao Yin, John Chi-Kin Lee and Wenlan Wang



7. Volume 42 Number 1 January 2014

Editorial
Instructional leadership in centralized contexts: Rhetoric or reality?
Tony Bush

Articles

Mapping instructional leadership in Thailand: Has education reform impacted principal practice?
Phillip Hallinger and Moosung Lee

The leadership styles of Hong Kong kindergarten principals in a context of managerial change
Chi Wai Chan

Factors influencing principals’’ retirement decisions: a southern US perspective
Ellen H. Reames, Frances Kochan and Linxiang

Caring school leadership: A South African study
Cornelius P.Van de Vyer, Philip C. van der Westhuizen and L.W. Meyer

The effect of school –leader support and participation in decision making on teacher collaborative strategic planning: myth or reality?
Flora Mbugua and Jane F.A. Rarieya

To what extent is the Mayer and Salovey (1997) model of emotional intelligence a useful predicator of leadership style and perceived leadership outcomes in Australian educational institutions?
Paul Grunes, Amanada Gudmundsson and Bernd Irmer

Organizational culture and instructional innovations in higher education: perceptions and reactions of teachers and students
Chang Zhu and Nadine Engles

8.Volume 41 Number 6 November 2013

Editorial

Autonomy and accountability: Twin dimensions of the Reform Agenda
Tony Bush

Articles

School autonomy and government control: School Leaders’ Views on a changing policy landscape in England
Rob Higham and Peter Earley

Articles

School leaders’ perceptions of the impact of extended services on families and communities: The case of one local authority
Andrew Peterson and Ian Durrant

Senior managers’ perspectives of leading and managing effective sustainable and successful partnerships
Jaswinder K. Dhillon

Perfect partners or uneasy bedfellows? Competing understandings of the place of business management within contemporary education
Charlotte Woods, Paul Armstrong, Joanna Bragg and Diana Pearson

Can early careers teachers be teachers’ leaders? A study of second year trainee in the teach first alternative certification programme
Daniel Muijs, Chris Chapman and Paul Armstrong

A day in the life of new headteachers: Learning from observation
Peter Earley and Sara Bubb

School leader perspectives on leadership learning preparation and continuing professional development in the Chinese Province of Fujian: An exploratory study
Michael Wilson and Xiaomin Xue

Recruitment and transition of construction lecturers in further education: The perspective of middle managers
Damien Page

9. Volume 41 Number 5 September 2013

Special Section on Distributed leadership

Editorial

Distributed Leadership: The Model of Choice in the 21st Century
Tony Bush

Articles

Distributed Leadership: Friend or Foe
Alma Harris

Distributed Leadership: A study in knowledge production
Helen Gunter, Dave Hall and Joanna Bragg

Distributed Leadership: The Uses and Abuses of Power
Jacky Lumby

How Far is Leadership Distributed in Extended Services Provision?
Kay Fuller, Sarah Parsons, Natasha MacNab and Hywel Thomas

Leadership in Disadvantaged Primary Schools: Two Narratives of Contrasting Schools
Marietjie Oswald and Petra Englebrecht

Transformational Leadership and globalization: Attitudes of school principals in Kuwait
Farraj Alsaeedi and Trevor Male

Local solutions for national challenges? Exploring local solutions through the case of a national succession planning strategy
Mike Collins

Professors as Academic leaders: The perspectives of ‘the Led’
Linda Evans Matthew Homer and Stephen Rayner




10. Volume 41 Number 4 July 2013

Special Issue: International Perspective on leader Development: Definition and Design
Guest Allan Walker and Philip Hallinger

Editorial
International Perspective on Leader Development: Definition and Design
Allan Walker and Philip Hallinger


Articles

International patterns in principal preparation: Commonalities and variations in Pre-service Programmes
Allan Walker, Darren Bryant and Moosung Lee

Preparing principals: What can we learn from MBA and MPA programmes?
Philip Hallinger and Jiafang Lu

Preparing headteachers in England: Prfoessional certification, not academic learning
Tony Bush

The development, endorsement and adoption of a national standard for principals in Australia
Stephen Dinham, Patricia Collarbone, Margery Evans and Anthony Mackay

Change and continuity: a critical analysis of principal development policy in Mainland China (1989-2011)
Yulian Zheng, Allan Wlaker and Shuangye Chen

Implementation of a coaching program for school principals: evaluating coaches’ strategies and the results
Jason Huff,Courthney Preston and Ellen Goldring

Multiple learning approaches in the professional development of school leaders – theoretical perspective and empirical findings on self-assessment and feedback
Stephan Gerhard Huber


11. Volume 41 Number 3 May 2013

Editorial
Leadership development for school principals: Specialized preparation or post-hoc repair?
Tony Bush

Articles

Leadership development for experienced New Zealand principals: perceptions of effectiveness
Carol Cardno and Howard Youngs

Equipping aspiring principals for the principal in Hong Kong
Shun Wing Ng

Instructional leadership in Turkish Primary Schools: An analysis of teachers’ perception and current policy
Sedat Gumus and Mete Akcaoglu

Developing psychic income in school administration: The unique role school administrators can play
Precious Guramatunhu-Mudiwa and Susan Day Scherz

Mindful leaders in highly effective schools: A mixed-method application of Hoy’s M-Scale
W. Sean Kearney, Cheryl Kelsey and David Herrington

Adolescent leadership: The female voice
Nicole Archard


Higher education change and its managers: Alternative constructions
Sabine Hotho

Transformational and passive leadership: An initial investigation of University Instructors as Leaders in a virtual learning environment
Ronit Bogler, Avner Caspi and Sonia Roccas

Book Review
High-leverage leadership: Improving outcomes in Educational settings by Dennis Mongon and Christopher Chapman
Reviewed by Trevor Male

12. Volume 41 Number 2 March 2013

Editorial

Professionalism and accountability: compatible or incompatible?
Tony Bush

Articles

School systems’ practices of controlling socialization during principal succession: Looking through the lens of an organizational socialization theory
Ed Bengston, Sally J. Zepeda and Okasana Parylo

Paradoxical change and construction of identity in an educational organization
Anu Puusa, matti Kuittinen and Pekka Kuusela

Leadership for inter-service practice: collaborative leadership lost in translation? An exploration
Marlene Morrison and Linet Arthur

Recruit for attitude, train for skills: creating high performing leadership teams
Janet Goodall

Principals’ engagement of low ability students in Singapore Secondary Schools
Chye Hin Ong and Clive Dimmock

Leading at the Cola-face: The world as experienced by subject coordinators in Australian Higher Education
Dale Holt, Lynne Cohen, Glenda Campbell-Evans, Paul Chang, Ian Macdonald and Jacquie McDonald





13. Volume 41 Number 1 January 2013

Editorial
Leadership in Early childhood education
Tony Bush

Articles

How do they manage? An investigation of early childhood leadership
Carol Aubre, Ray Godfrey and Alma Harris

Contextualizing distributed leadership within early childhood education: current understandings, research evidence and future challenges
Johanna Heikka, Manjula Waniganauyake and Eeva Hujala

The impact of educational change on school leaders: experiences of Pakistani School leaders
Jamila Razzaq and Christine Forde

Leadership effectiveness in Jordanian educational institutions: A comparison of Jordanian Female and Male leaders
Abdullah Abu Tineh

Chameleon or chimera? The role of the higher level teaching assistants (HLTA) in a remodeled workforce in English schools
Susan Graves

Being a leadership development coach: A multifaceted role
Christine Forde, Margery McMahon, Peter Gronn and Margaret Martin

14. Volume 40 Number 5 September 2012

Special 40th Anniversary Issue
Editors: Tony Bush and Megan Crawford

Editorial
Mapping the filed over 40 years: A historical review
Tony Bush and Megan Crawford

Articles

Permanent Secretaries, consensus and centrism in National policymaking in education – Sir David Hancock ad the reform Act 1988: A place for a humanistic research dimension?
Peter Ribbins and Brian Sherratt

Persistent preoccupations: The rise and rise of school autonomy and accountability in England
Ron Glatter
Leading organizational culture: Issues of power and equity
Jacky Lumby

Leadership and diversity
Marianne Coleman

Solo and distributed leadership: Definitions and dilemmas
Megan Crawford

Understanding school leadership and management development in England: Retrospect and prospect
Tim Simkins

Book Review

Margaret Grogan and Carol Shakeshaft, Women and Educational leadership
Reviewed by Khalid Arar

Kenneth Liethwood, Alma Harris and Tiiu Strauss, Leading School
Turnaround: how successful leaders transform low performing schools
Reviewed by Min Sun

15. Volume 40 Number 4 July 2012

Editorial
Leadership for researcher development: What research leaders need to know and understand
Linda Evans

Are academic departments perceived as learning orgnaizations?
Laura B. Holyoke, Patricia A. Sturko, Nathan B. Wood and Lora J. Wu

Leadership, the logic of sufficiency and the sustainability of education
Mike Battery

Problematizing ‘Risk’ and the principal ship: The risky business of managing risk in schools
Karen Starr

The necessity for collegiality: Power, Authority and influence in the middle
Adrian Jarvis

The relationship between transformational leadership and organizational commitment: The case for vocational teachers in Jordan
Samer Khas awneh, Aieman Omari and Abdullah M. Abu-Tineh

Instructional leadership in Lebanese public schools
Dorine Mattar
Book Review

M. Warren and K. Mapp, A match on dry grass: Community organizing as a catalyst for school reform
Review by Rob Higham

16. Volume 40 Number 3 May 2012

Editorial
Leadership in the early years: making a difference
Tony Bush

Articles

Leading and managing in the early years: A study of the impact of a NCSL programme on children’s centre leaders’ perception of leadership and practice
Lynn Ang

Using information and communication technologies in school administration: Researching Greek Kindergarten schools
Georgia Prokopiadou

The struggle for collective leadership: Thinking practice in a multicampus school setting
Michelle Anderson

The strategic thinking skills of Hong Kong school leaders: Usage and effectiveness
Nicholas Sun-Keung Pang and John Pisapia

A comparative study of school effectiveness in Aguablanca, Colombia
Michael Burgess and Pauline Dixon

Teachers’ perceptions of individual performance-related pay in practice: A picture of a counterproductive pay system
Ulf Lundstrom

‘I don’t have to be like my principal’: Learning to lead in the post compulsory sector
Fiona Mackay

Book Reviews

Jan Carmichael, Chris Collins, Peter Emsell, Jon Haydon, Leadership and Management Development
Reviewed by Gill Howland

B.Davies and B.J Davies, Talent Management in Education
Reviewed by Tom Bisschoff

Coral Mitchell and Larry Sackney, Profound Improvement: Building Learning-Community Capacity on Living-System Principles
Reviewed by David Cracknell

17. Volume 40 Number 2 March 2012

Editorial
Developing Leaders for Diverse Schools
Tony Bush

Articles

Developing black and minority ethnic leaders: the case for customized programmes
Dolapo Ogunbawo

Bridging theory and practice in headship preparation: Interpreting experience and challenging assumptions
Megan Crawford and Michael Cowie

Instructional supervision in public secondary schools in Kenya
Zachariah Wanzare

Do beginning teachers receive adequate support from their headteachers?
Maria Eliophotou Menon

Key stakeholders’ perceptions of effective school leadership
George Odhiambo and Amy Hii

Paying attention to moral purpose in leading learning: lessons from the leaders transforming learning and learners project
Michael Bezzina

‘Turning Points’: The personal and professional circumstances that lead academics to become middle managers
Alan Floyd

18. Volume 40 No.1 January 2012

Editorial
‘Life begins” - EMAL is 40 and stronger than ever
Tony Bush




Articles

Leadership identity in ethnically diverse schools in South Africa and England
Jacky Lumby and Jan Heystek

Leadership identity that promote inclusive education in Cypriot schools
Panayiotis Angelides

A school evaluation policy with a dual character: evaluating the school evaluation policy in Hong Kong from the perspective of curriculum leaders
Sze Yin Shirley Yeung

Primary strategy learning networks: A local study of a national initiative
Tessa A Moore and Desmond Rutherford

Leadership for learning in higher education: The student perspective
Debbie Richards

Leadership behaviour and effectiveness of academic program directors in Australian Universities
Tricia Vilkinas and Richard K. Ladyshewsky

Transfer of training in an academic leadership development program for program coordinators
Richard K. Ladyshewsky and Helen Flavell


19. Volume 37 Number 6 November 2009

Editorial
Assessing teacher performance
Tony Bush

Articles

Investigating secondary school leaders’ perception of performance management
Jan Moreland

Assessing the performance of secondary school headteachers: A survey study based in teachers’ views in Punjab
Shafqat Hussain Khan, Muhammad Saeed and Kiran Fatima

Quasi-regulation and principal Agent relationships; Secondary school admissions in London, England
Anne West, Hazel Pennell and Audrey Hind

Leading small Scottish Primary Schools: Still a Unique style?
Valerie Wilson
Community involvement in school development; Modifying school improvement concepts to the needs of South African Township schools
Martin Frew

Adolescent leadership development: Building a case for an authenticity framework
Gordon Whitehead


20. Volume 37 Number 5 September 2009

Editorial
Recruiting and retaining teachers: A question of motivation
Karin Muller, Roberta Alliata and Fabienne Benninghoff

The effects of servant leadership behaviour of school principals on teachers’ job satisfaction
Yusuf Cerit

Accountability in Arab Bedouin schools in Israel: Accountable to whom?
Omar Mizel

Investigating architectural quality theories for schools’ evaluation: A critical review of evaluation instruments in Sweden
Earland Flygt

Linking the policy making capacities of schools and the quality of school self-evaluations: The view of school leaders
Jan Vanhoof, Peter Van Petegem, Jef C. Verhoeven and Ina Buvens

Leading change in Higher education
Ian McRoy and Paul Gibbs

Improving HEI productivity and performance through project management: Implications from a benchmarking case study
David Bryde and Diana Leighton

Book Reviews










21. Volume 37 Number 4 July 2009

Editorial
Philip A. Woods and Mary John O’Hair

Articles

Nurturing democracy: The contribution of distributed leadership to a democratic organizational landscape
Philip A. Woods and Peter Gronn

The boundary-spanning role of democratic learning communities: Implementing the IDEALS
Leslie Williams, Jean Cate and Mary John O’Hair

Struggling for democracy: Administrative communication in a diverse school context
James Ryan and Cindy Rottmann

Public space and educational leadership: reclaiming and renewing our radical traditions
Michael Fielding

Increasing student voice in High School reform: Building partnerships, improving outcomes
Dana L. Mitra and Steven Jay Gross

The impact of institutional design on the democratization of school governance: The case of Nicaragua’s autonomous school program
Silvina Gvirtz and Lucila Minvielle

22. Volume 37 Number 3 May 2009

Editorial
Partnership and collaboration in educational leadership
Tony Bush

Articles

Collective leadership of local school systems: Power, autonomy and ethics
Jacky Lumby

Appointing senior managers in education: Homosociability, local logics and authenticity in the selection process
Bernie Grummell, Dympna Devine and Kathleen Lynch

Gender balance in leadership? Reform and modernization in the UK further education sector
Duncan McTavish and Karen Miller


What policymakers can do to make education inclusive
Sip Jan Pijl and Paul H.A. Frissen

The development and reform of school administration is Greece: A primary school perspective
Anna Saiti

Planning an innovative school: How to reducae regression toward the mean
Dorit Tubin

Book Review








23. Volume 37 Number 2 March 2009

Editorial
Funding education to address disadvantage
Tony Bush

Articles

Redistribution and financing schools in England under labour: Are resources going where needs are greatest?
Anne West

Empowerment or prescription? Workforce remodeling at the National and school level
Linda Hammersley-Fletcher and Nick Adnett

Behaviour of Turkish elementary school principals in the change process: An analysis of the perceptions of both teachers and school principlas
Feyyat Gokce

‘I don’t want to be a school head’: Women Deputy heads’ Insightful constructions of career advancement and retention
Izhar Oplatka and Vered Tamir

Working the interface: Brokerafe and learning networks
Chris Kubiak

Distributed leadership in higher education: Rhetoric and reality
Richard Bolden, Gregory Petrov and Jonathan Gosling

Globalization and its impact on education with specific reference to education in South Africa
K.C. Moloi, S.J. Gravett and N.F. Petersen

Book reviews


24. Volume 37 Number 1 January 2009

Editorial
Time to expand-again
Tony Bush


Articles
Rebuilding organizational capacity in turnaround schools: Insights from the corporate, government, and non-profit sectors

Outcomes of in-school leadership development work: A study of three NCSL programmes
Tim Simkins, Mike Coldwell, Paul Close and Anne Morgan

The tyranny of bureaucracy: continuing challenges of leading and managing from the middle
Tanya Fitzgerald

Some ethical and cultural implications of the leadership ‘Turn’ in education: On the distinction between performance and performativity
Michael Strain

Exploring aspiring principals’ perceptions of principalship: A Slovenian case study
Anita Trnavcevic and Silva Roncelli Vaupot

Budget monitoring and control in South African Township Schools: Democratic governance at risk
Raj Mestry and Gans Naidoo

Leadership at the top: some insights from a longitudinal case study of a UK business school
Allan P.O. Williams

Book Reviews


25. Volume 36 Number 4 October 2008

Editorial
Universal primary education- A legitimate goal?
Tony Bush
Articles
Impact of free primary education in Kenya: A case study of private school in Kibera
James Tooley, Pauline Dixon an James Stanfield

Instructional leadership for quality learning: An assessment of the impact of the primary school management development project in Botswana
Nkobi Owen Pansiri

Decision-making as a struggle and a play: On alternative rationalities in schools as organization
Petri Salo

School principlas’ assumptions abut human nature: Implications for leadership in Turkey
Ali Sabanci

Using diverse data to develop and sustain school, family and community partnerships: A district case study
Mavis G. Sanders

Manitoba superintendents: Mentoring and leadership
Carolyn Crippen and Dawn Wallin

A comparative analysis of the educational priorities and capacity of rural school districts
Dawn Wallin

Book reviews


26. Volume 36 Number 3 July 2008

Editorial
Developing educational leaders – Don’t leave it to chance
Tony Bush

Articles

Leadership talent identification and development: Perception of heads, middle leaders and classroom teachers in 70 contextually different primary and secondary schools in England
Chrispther Rhodes, Mark Brundrett and Alan Nevill

Principals’ performance assessment: Empirical evidence from an Israeli Case study
Haim Gaziel

Headteacher career paths in UK independent secondary coeducational schools: Gender issues
Margaret McLay

Spiritual intelligence in leadership development: A practitioner inquiry into ethical orientation of leadership styles in LPSH
Tim Luckcock

Towards a theory of mutual dependency between school administrators and teachers bargaining theory as research heuristic
Eyvind Elsatd

Persuading teachers to adopt academic theories (or deontological perspectives in professional motivation to translate academic theories into praxis): Developing a communications epistemology by action research
Angela Thody

Book Reviews

27. Volume 36 Number 2 April 2008

Special edition: The legacy of the education reform Act 1988
Guest Editor: Michael Strain and Tim Simkins

Editorial
Continuity, change and educational reform –Questioning the legacy of the education reform act 1988
Michael Strain and Tim Simkins

Articles

Twenty years of progress? English education policy 10988 to the present
Geoff Whitty

The legacy of ERA, privatization and the policy ratchet
Stephen J.Ball

The changing governance of education
Stewart Ranson

Financing schools: Evolving patterns of autonomy and control
Rosalind Levacic

Reconceptualizing the self –managing school
Brian J. Caldwell

Policy and workforce reform in England
Helen M. Gunter


From management to leadership: Semantic or meaningful change?
Tony Bush

Learning about system renewal
Ben Levin and Micahel Fullan



28. Volume 36 Number 1 January 2008

Editorial
Educational leadership and management – Broadening the base
Tony Bush

Articles

Educating leaders: Is there anything to learn from business management?
Philip Hallinger and Kamontip Snidvongs

Align, don’t necessarily follow
Eveline Wittmann

Pathways to building leadership capacity
Lorraine Slater

Secondary school leadership practice in Botswana: Implications for effective training
Bolelang Pheko

The role of school principals in enhancing teacher professionalism: Lessons from Pakistan
Meher Rizvi

Organizational communication and job satification in Australian catholic secondary schools
John J. De Nobile and john Mc Cormick

Stories of compliance and subversion in a prescriptive policy environment
John Macbeath

Book reviews





 
29. Volume 35 Number 4 October 2007

Editorial
Autonomy and accountability in higher education
Tony Bush

Articles
Leadership of academics in research
Stephen Ball

Leaders as researchers; supporting practitioner enquiry through the NCSL research associate programme
Andy Coleman

Imagine ‘midfield’: Appreciative inquiry as a process for leading school improvement
Glyn Willoughby and Paul Tosey

Emotional coherence in Primary School headship
Megan Crawford

Personal growth and spirituality in leadership development: A critical analysis of the construction of self in LPSM
Tim Luckcock

Discretion and control in education: The teacher as street-level bureaucrat
Ian Taylor

Systemic leadership for schools and the significance of systemic authorization
Chris James, Michael Connolly, Gerald Dunning and Tony Elliot

Book Reviews

30. Volume 35 Number 3 July 2007

Editorial
Implementing educational reform – The role of school and system leaders
Tony Bush

Articles

Learning advanced leadership: Findings from a leadership development programme for new superintendents
Margaret Terry Orr

The first 100 days: Leadership challenges of a new CEO
Anne M. Sarros and James C. Sarros
Self-evaluation and Ofsted Inspection: Developing an integrative model of school improvement
David Plowright

An evaluation of Ofsted reports on LEA’s management of attendance issues
Ken Reid

Managing chronic excuse-making behaviours of faculty: Applying schnekler’s responsibility triangle
Lisa A. Burke and Barbara Rau

Book Review Symposium

31. Volume 35 Number 2 April 2007

Special Edition: Cross cultural perspective on authentic school leadership
Guest Editor: Paul T. Begley

Editorial Introduction: cross cultural perspectives on authentic school leadership
Paul T. Begley

Leading a community of learners: learning to be moral by engaging the morality of learning
Robert J. Starratt

Leader authenticity in intercultural school contexts
Allan Walker and Chen Shuangye

Ethical school leadership: Defining the best interests of students
Jacqueline Stefkovich and Paul T. Begley

Effects of structured self-reflection on the development of authentic leadership practice among Queenland Primary School principals
Chritopher Branson

Ethical leadership on Canadian school organizations: Tensions and possibilities
Lyse Langlois and Claire Lapointe

“The fact that I’m a woman may have been a deciding factor’: The moral dilemmas of an Icelandic headteacher
Steinunn Helga Larusdottir

Ethical; dilemmas of Swedish School leaders: Contrasts and common themes
Katarina Norberg and Olof Johansson

Authenticity in the bureau-enterprise culture: The struggle for authentic meaning
Philip A. Woods
 
32. Volume 35 Number 1 January 2007

Editorial
Theory and research in educational leadership and management
Tony Bush

Articles

Educational reform: An ironic perspective
Eric Hoyle and Mike Wallace

Rethinking educational reform: A loosely coupled and complex systems perspective
Chris Goldspink

The professional and organizational socialization of New English headteacher in school reform context
Gary M. Crow

Do school leaders have a self life? Career stages and headteacher performance
Peter Earley and Dick Weindling

Reports from the front line: English headteachers’ work in an era of practice centralization
Michael Bottery

Teaher leadership in (In)action: Three case studies of contrasting schools
Daniel Muijs and Alma Harris

The ‘Bigger Feeling’: The importance of spiritual experience in educational leadership
Glenys Woods
Book review

33. Volume 34 Number 4 October 2006

Including a special section: Education leadership in South Africa

Editorial
Educational leadership and management: South African and global perspective
Tony Bush

Special section: educational leadership in South Africa

Creating a school environment for the effective management of cultural diversity
B.R. Grobler, K.C . Moloi, C.F. Loock, T.C. Bisschoff and R.J. Mestry

School governing bodies in South Africa: Relationships between principals and parent governors – A question of trust?
Identity, Institutions and systematic change: The case of higher education in South Africa
Damian Ruth

Emerging voices on teacher leadership: Some South African views
Corolyn Grant

OTHER ARTICELS

Transformational classroom leadership: The fourth wave of teacher leadership?
James S. Pounder

Learning Challenges involved in developing leading for learning
Helen S. Timperely

Workable compromise of pointless exercise? School-based evaluation in the Irish Context
Gerry McNamara and Joe O’Hara

Annual Index

34. Volume 34 Number 3 July 2006

Editorial
Leadership, globalization and diversity
Tony Bush

Articles

Diversity and diversity management: Message from recent research
Marlene Morrision, Jacky Lumby and Krishan Sood

Principal selection: Homosociability, the search for security and the production of normalized principal identities
Jill Blackmore, Pat Thomson and Karin Barty

The Organizational values of Gimnazija in Slovenia
Nicholas Sun-Keung Pang

Satisfaction of Pre-service and in-service teachers with primary school organization: Evidence from Greece
Maria Eliophotou Menon and Christos Saitis

Creating a shared understanding of classroom management
Unni Vere Midthassel

Managing the role stress of public relations practitioners in international schools
Tristan Bunnell
Further education management strategy and policy: institutional and public management dimensions
Duncan McTavish

Book Reviews


35. Volume 34 Number 2 April 2006

Special Edition: Leadership and diversity

Editorial
Educational leadership and diversity
Marianne Coleman and Carol Cardno

Articles

Conceptualizing diversity and leadership: Evidence from 10 cases
Jacky Lumby

Inclusion, diversity and leadership: Perspectives, possibilities and contradictions
Elizabeth Leo and Len Barton

Deconstruction diversity discourses in the field of educational management and leadership
Jill Blackmore

Walking between two worlds: Indigenous women and educational leadership
Tanya Fitzgerald

Leading multiethnic schools: A new understanding of Muslim Youth identity
Saeeda Shah

Who gets ahead? The effect of age, disability, ethnicity and gender on teachers’ careers and implications for school leaders
Valerie Wilson, Janet Powney, Stuart Hall and Julia Davidson

Educational leadership and the challenge of diversity
Helen M. Gunter

36. Volume 34 Number 1 January 2006

Editorial
Time to expand
Tony Bush


Articles

Black mangers in further education: Career hopes and hesitations
Fiona Mackay and Jan Etienne

Job satisfaction of secondary school teachers
Alf Crossman and Penelope Harris

Measuring and targeting internal conditions for school effectiveness in the free state of South Africa
Abraham Kgaile and Keith Morrison

Collaboration for school improvement: A resource dependency and institutional framework of analysis
Michael Connolly and Chris James

Sustaining skills in headship: Professional development for experienced headteachers
Vince Stroud

Closing the gap: The role of head of department in Chinese Secondary schools
David Mercer and Lai Ri

Developing a model for strategic leadership in schools
Barbara J. Davies and Brent Davies

Book Reviews

37. Volume 33 Number 4 October 2005

Editorial
The role of international editorial board
Tony Bush

Articles

What’s new? Identifying innovation arising from school collaboration initiatives
Ron Glatter, Frances Castle, Deborah Cooper, Jennifer Evans and Phillip A. Woods

Secondary teacher workload and job satisfaction: Do successful strategies for change exist?
Graham Butt and Ann Lance

Promotion criteria and satisfaction of school teachers in Hong Kong
Ping-Man Wong and Chi-Sum Wong


Departmental leadership and management in chartered and statutory universities: A case of diversity
Robert Smith

Management of private-aided higher education in Karnataka, India: Lessons from an enduring public-private partnership
James Tooley

Book Review

38. Volume 33 Number 3 July 2005

Editorial
What is a disaster?
Tony Bush

Articles

The individualization of consumption: A Trojan horse in the destruction of the public sector?
Michael Bottery

Profiles of school administrators in South Korea: A comparative perspective
Songmi Kim and Eugene P. Kim

Teachers working in collaborative structures: A case study of a secondary school in the USA
David Hagen Cameron

Introducing ICT in secondary schools: A context for reflection on management and professional norms
Mary Simpson, Fran Payne and Rae Condie

Effects of work-related attitudes on the intention to leave the profession: An examination of school teachers in Nigeria
Olugbenga Jelil Ladebo

Book Review

39. Volume 33 Number 2 April 2005

Special Edition: Researching leadership and management

Editorial
Researching educational leadership and management
Jacky Lumby, Nick Foskett and Brian Fidler


The international context for research in educational leadership and management
Bill Mulford

Current contexts for research in educational leadership
Helen M. Gorard

Conceptualizing research in educational leadership
Helen M. Gunter

‘Leadership’ as a manifestation of knowledge
Nicholas Allix and Peter Gronn

Educational leadership as a casual factor: Methodological issue in research on leadership ‘Effects’
Rosalin Levacic

Methodological issues related to casual studies of leadership: A mixed methods perspective from the USA
Charles Teddie

The study of educational leadership and management; Where does the field stand today?
Ronald H. Heck and Philip Hallinger

Evolution or extinction? Reflection on the future of research in educational leadership and management
Nick Foskett, Jacky Lumby and Brian Fidler

40. Volume 33 Number 1 January 2005

Editorial
Educational leadership and management: Making a difference?
Tony Bush

Articles

Leadership in education: ‘What works’ or ‘What makes sense’?
Tim Simkins

Middle managers in English further education colleges: Understanding and modelling the role
Ann R.J. Briggs

‘What we’re doing, we do musically’: Leading and managing music in secondary schools
Janet A. Harvey and Gary Beauchamp


Leading teaching and learning in the primary school: From ‘Educative leadership’ to ‘Pedagogical leadership’
Rosemary Webb

Evaluating new criteria and procedure for fudning special needs education in the Netherlands
Sip Jan Pijl and Hillie Veneman

Competing conceptions and values in school strategy: Rational planning and beyond
Peter Davies and Gwen Coates

Book Reviews

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