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Middle-level School Leaders: Understanding Their Roles and Aspirations
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Cranston, NC, Middle-level School Leaders: Understanding Their Roles and Aspirations, Australian School Leadership Today, Australian Academic Press, Cranston, N & Ehrich, L (ed), Australia, pp. 217-241. ISBN 978-1-9215-1333-6 (2009) [Research Book Chapter]
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Abstract
Middle-level school leaders (e.g., deputy principals, assistant principals,
associate principals) have received considerably less attention by
researchers in recent years compared with their principal colleagues.
This is despite several decades of self-managing school trends and more
recent arguments for distributive leadership models in schools. As a
result of this research dearth, there are few documented understandings
of how their roles and responsibilities have been evolving under the
plethora of changes impacting on schools. Further, in a context of a
potential growing demand for principals in the near future to replace
retiring baby-boomer principals, the intentions (or otherwise) of such
school leaders to seek principal positions are of interest. This chapter
draws on a number of recent studies that looked specifically at just
what such middle-level schools leaders did in their roles, what attitudes
they held regarding various aspects of their roles and what their views
of the principalship were in a context of possible future career aspirations.
The chapter concludes with some issues for schools and school
systems to consider.
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | middle-level school leaders, deputy principals, assistant principals, associate principals, roles, aspirations |
Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Specialist studies in education |
Research Field: | Educational administration, management and leadership |
Objective Division: | Education and Training |
Objective Group: | Schools and learning environments |
Objective Field: | Management, resources and leadership |
UTAS Author: | Cranston, NC (Professor Neil Cranston) |
ID Code: | 59315 |
Year Published: | 2009 |
Deposited By: | Education |
Deposited On: | 2009-11-27 |
Last Modified: | 2012-12-03 |
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