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Secondary Principals' Perspectives from NZCER's 2022 National Survey of Schools
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Mohamed Alansari; Jo MacDonald; Mengnan Li – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2023
The long-running National Survey of Schools project is part of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research's (NZCER's) Te Pae Tawhiti programme of research, funded through the Ministry of Education. NZCER has run a national survey of secondary schools every 3 years since 2003. As part of the 2022 National Survey of Secondary Schools, we…
Descriptors: Principals, Secondary Education, Administrator Attitudes, School Surveys
Managing Time for Heads of Music Departments: The Bipolarity of Compulsion and Desire
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Thwaites, Trevor; McPhail, Graham – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2018
New Zealand secondary music teachers spend many hours each week in both preparing and training a variety of performance ensembles, often before school, during lunchtimes, after school, on weekends and during holidays. In many cases this can be regarded as unpaid labour, yet their efforts make a significant contribution to a school's life: its…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Music Teachers, Music Education, Music Activities
Sustaining the Commitment and Realising the Potential of Highly Promising Teachers
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Cameron, Marie; Lovett, Susan – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
The Teachers of Promise study has followed the work histories of 57 primary and secondary teachers who had been identified at the beginning of their third year of teaching as having the potential to make a significant contribution to the profession. Using data from surveys and interviews, this paper reports on what sustained or inhibited their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Coping
Development and Use of an Instrument for Assessing the Department-Level Work Environment: The Department-Level Environment Questionnaire (DLEQ)
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Ward, Gillian; Fisher, Darrell L. – Learning Environments Research, 2013
There has been little research into the work environments of teachers at the subject department level. Understanding and investigating the work environment at this level could provide insight into the type of work environment that might lead teachers to remain in the teaching profession. This article reports the development, validation and use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Science Teachers, Science Departments
Foucault, Counter-Conduct and School Leadership as a Form of Political Subjectivity
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Niesche, Richard – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2013
Globally, a range of new schooling accountabilities have created a complex and often contradictory context in which school leaders work. For principals of low socio-economic status (SES) and disadvantaged schools, they must balance the accountability, performance and reporting requirements against the other needs of their communities. These…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Disadvantaged Schools
The Integration of Work and Learning in New Zealand: A Working Paper
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Vaughan, Karen – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2012
This paper is an initial exploration of the integration of work and learning and is intended to inform NZCER's Learning at Work research programme. It shows how the traditional separation between work and learning is being challenged and looks at what that means for education professionals, institutions and programmes. The paper considers the…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Lifelong Learning