NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Chikoko, Vitallis; Naicker, Inbanathan; Mthiyane, Siphiwe – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
This paper reports on evidence from five school principals regarding leadership practices that work in multiple deprived contexts. The South African educational landscape is complex, often described as a cocktail of first and third world institutions. Looking at the schooling system on a continuum, on the one end there are first class schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Environment, School Administration
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Smith, Phil; Bell, Les – Management in Education, 2011
This article reports on a research project that studied the approaches to leadership adopted by head teachers in one local authority in an area of extreme social deprivation in northern England. Using data from semi-structured interviews which was analysed using three software packages, it examines how far the heads use either transactional or…
Descriptors: Interviews, Foreign Countries, Transformational Leadership, Leadership
Hilton, Ernest; And Others – Instructor, 1973
Board members of Instructor have an informal discussion about important educational issues that affect each child's learning proficiency. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Accountability, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Practices