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Berkovich, Izhak – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
This study adopts a structural perspective to explore micro-politics in senior management teams and identify the principals' inner circle. Based on data from an Israeli random sample of state primary teachers, profiles of trust in principal are identified and used to break down the subgroups of teachers serving in various roles in senior…
Descriptors: Politics, Administrators, Middle Management, Principals
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Cohen, Rinat; Schechter, Chen – Educational Practice and Theory, 2018
This study examined the coping strategies utilized by new assistant principals (APs) in order to establish their professional and managerial authority as they enter their role. This article is based on a qualitative study of 23 APs at different stages of their careers, deriving categories from 37 semi-structured interviews (14 were repeated ones,…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Coping, Stress Management, Stress Variables
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Agbaria, Ayman K. – Ethics and Education, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to problematize the place of religious authority in politics and education. Specifically, this essay highlights the role of religious authority in establishing a moral order that values compliance and conformity at the expense of liberty and critique. In doing so, the essay reflects on Israeli politics and Islamic…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Moral Values, Compliance (Psychology), Islam
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Eyal, Ori; Yarm, Marissa – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2018
Purpose: In recent years, the rise of cross-sector alliances (CSAs) in education has elicited growing concerns regarding the unrestrained influence of external partners. Against this backdrop, this study aims to explore the ways in which public schools perceive and collaborate with nonsystem actors (NSAs). Research Methods: Using a qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Public Schools, Administrator Attitudes
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Dan Rabinowitz; Ronen Shamir – Academe, 2008
The tension surrounding Barnard College's determination of whether to grant tenure to anthropologist Nadia Abu El-Haj was resolved this fall. Barnard reached a positive decision. The affair, however, leaves a number of important issues open. At the center of this controversy stands Abu El-Haj's first book, "Facts on the Ground: Archaeological…
Descriptors: Historiography, Ethnicity, Jews, Tenure
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Fazal Rizvi; Bob Lingard – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2006
This introductory essay to this special issue of Discourse on Edward Said and the cultural politics of education provides an overview discussion of four inter-related themes representing the wideranging scope of Said's academic and political writings. The first of these themes relates to his idea of Orientalism, through which Said sought to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Power Structure, Foreign Policy
Kelly, Gail P., Ed.; Slaughter, Sheila, Ed. – 1991
This book presents a collection of essays on the effect of national policies and practices on women's access to higher education, the type of courses in which women are enrolled, women's roles as academics, and how the outcomes of higher education affect women in the academic workforce and the economy. Various countries are represented in the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Education, Educational Environment, Equal Education