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From conventional school to democratic school community: A case study of a principal's practices, obstacles, and action plans.
(2001)
The purpose of this study was to examine and document a principal's practices, obstacles, and action plans in facilitating a school's movement from a conventional school to a democratic school community. Specifically, the ...
Perceptions of teachers and administrators in an Oklahoma school district regarding a safe school environment.
(2000)
The topic of school violence and its causes are at the forefront of educational issues today. The purpose of this study was to measure teachers' and administrators' perceptions of violence within a public school district ...
The effectiveness of the South African Schools Act to desegregate the schools of the Gauteng Province.
(2000)
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there has been a noticeable trend in the inter-racial migration of learners within the Gauteng Province of South Africa after the enactment of the South African Schools ...
Perceptions of female school superintendents.
(2002)
This qualitative study involved female superintendents in the state of Oklahoma. A survey questionnaire designed to gather demographic information was sent to the 48 practicing female superintendents during the 2000--2001 ...
AN ANALYSIS OF LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS THROUGH THE LENS OF SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY
(2015)
The purpose of this study was to explore leadership transitions in private school environments through the lens of social identity theory. The study relied on qualitative analysis of in-person interviews with three leaders ...
A phenomenological study of leadership: Developing a shared school vision.
(2004)
Identified principal behaviors supported empowering the vision, modeling support for the vision, building vision coherence, and monitoring vision. This study seeks to examine these behaviors from the perceptions of the ...
The function of context, influence and intuition in solving problems of leadership.
(2006)
The purpose of the study was to determine if training novice leaders to identify context, influence and intuition embedded in a real life problem-solving narrative as affecting the explicitness they used in describing how ...
A descriptive case study of the impact of 9/11 on international student visa policy in the 20 months following the attacks.
(2005)
International students in the U.S. have consistently been treated in public policy as educational diplomatic and economic assets. In the year before 9/11, a national policy endorsing international education, including ...
The supervision and evaluation of high school principals as described by central office administrators.
(2000)
The participants described several procedures and interactions they used to supervise and evaluate high school principals: (a) pre-conferences, (b) goal-setting, (c) site visits, (d) group meetings, (e) post-conferences, ...