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Aldinucci, Alice; Valiente, Oscar; Hurrell, Scott; Zancajo, Adrián – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
The interest in educational and professional aspirations of students transiting to post-secondary education has gained prominence in academic debates and policy agendas internationally. Political interventions for raising aspirations quite often draw on narrow instrumental and rationalistic assumptions of individual decision-making that, as we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Vocational Education, Aspiration
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Gurr, David – School Leadership & Management, 2019
The paper brings together for the first time a sequence of six studies, from the one university faculty, on middle leaders from Australia, Chile and Singapore. All studies followed a consistent approach using multiple-perspective interviews. Middle leaders were seen to be key personnel in improving teaching and learning, and when they have…
Descriptors: Middle Management, School Administration, Foreign Countries, Expectation
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Anderson, Joan B. – Elementary School Journal, 2008
This article examines the effectiveness of observable and quantifiable traits in and approaches of school principals in enhancing student achievement. Data were gathered on 2,048 fourth-grade students in 96 public primary schools in Leon, Mexico; Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Santiago, Chile. The UNESCO/ORELAC (United…
Descriptors: Discipline, Teacher Persistence, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement