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The Ways School Headteachers/Principals in England at Different Stages of Adult Ego Development Work with Organisational Complexity
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Neil Gilbride; Chris James; Sam Carr – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2025
In this article, we analyse the ways school headteachers/principals (HT/Ps) at different stages of adult ego development (AED) make sense of and respond to the organisational complexity of their schools. The AED stage of 20 HT/Ps in England was assessed using the Washington University Sentence Completion Test. HT/Ps in the self-aware,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Individual Development, Self Concept
School Principals at Different Stages of Adult Ego Development: Their Sense-Making Capabilities and How Others Experience Them
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Gilbride, Neil; James, Chris; Carr, Sam – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2021
The way school principals make sense of the context of their work shapes their actions. As in all adults, principals' sense-making capability is a function of the ego and can change over time. Adult ego development theory describes distinct, qualitatively different stages of sense-making ability. The research reported here assessed the adult ego…
Descriptors: Principals, Adults, School Administration, Administrator Behavior
School Principals: Their Adult Ego Development Stage, Their Sensemaking Capabilities, and How Others Experience Them
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Carr, Sam; Gilbride, Neil; James, Christopher R. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
School principals' interpretation of the context for their work has significant implications for their practice and for organisational theory educational settings. Principals' sense-making capability can change over time, as in all adults. Sense-making capability is grounded in adult ego development (AED) theory which describes eight distinct…
Descriptors: Principals, Self Concept, Case Studies, Administrator Attitudes