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Educational middle change leaders in New Zealand: The meat in the sandwich

Marshall, Steven (International Journal of Educational Management, 2012)

This article reports findings from a larger study into the role of middle leaders of change in New Zealand Higher Education. The study discusses the perceptions of being in the ‘middle’ and how change leaders reconcile ...
Characteristics for principal employment: A Board of Trustee chair perspective

Wilson, Robert (Master of Educational Leadership and Management, 2009)

Boards are responsible for the appointment of principal and school leader and of all the roles in which the boards find themselves undertaking, none is more critical than the recruitment of a principal. There is a gap in ...
The implementation of the revised New Zealand Curriculum: Unpacking the complexities of sustainability, school climate and distributed forms of educational leadership

Youngs, Howard (Changing Climates: Education for Sustainable Futures. AARE 2008 International Education Conference, 2009)

The day-to-day practice of educational leadership practice can be extremely complex, demanding and yet rewarding; it is a highly relational activity. At the very heart of changing the climate of a school in relation to ...
The challenge of reaping a harvest from school-based learning initiatives: Sources of learning through the perspectives of school leaders, teachers and students

Youngs, Howard (Hosting and Harvesting: Creating the Change we wish to see in the World. Biennial Conference of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Leadership, 2010)

Implementing and sustaining school-wide learning initiatives through a wider distribution of leadership is espoused as a means of generating a higher quality ‘harvest’ of student learning outcomes. Two in-depth 20-month ...
“Should I stand back, or should I lead?” Developing intentional communal cultures of emergent and distributed forms of leadership in educational settings

Youngs, Howard (Enhancing the Heart, Enriching the Mind: 2008 NZEALS International Educational Leadership Conference, 2008)

The day to day practice of leadership in education can oscillate from being a rewarding activity one moment, to one that can be littered with confusion and dilemmas the next. Leadership practice can so often lie beyond ...
Challenge and opportunity: Middle leaders and the implementation of the New Zealand curriculum

Craggs, Simon (Master of Educational Leadership and Management, 2011)

The implementation of a new national curriculum is a huge undertaking. The formulation of the revised New Zealand Curriculum in 2007, with its three year implementation period, came near the end of a decade of intensive ...
An examination of the issues facing heads of departments in New Zealand secondary schools

Stephenson, Alan (Master of Educational Leadership and Management, 2010)

This research examines the issues facing Heads of Departments (HoDs) in New Zealand secondary schools. The role of an HoD has changed considerably over the last one to two decades. This is evident in the complexity of the ...
Factors influencing the recruitment of primary and intermediate aged boy boarders

Scrymgeour, David Ross (Master of Educational Leadership and Management, 2010)

The research project explored trends in three areas of primary/intermediate school boarding that may have an effect on the recruitment of boy boarders. The areas of; leadership, curriculum/programmes and parental/family ...
The continuing politics of mistrust: Performance management and the erosion of professional work

Fitzgerald, Tanya (Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2008)

For the past two decades schools and teachers in New Zealand and elsewhere have been the subject of and subjected to intense public scrutiny of their performance and professional activities. In effect, policy solutions ...
Rhetoric and practice in action research

Piggot-Irvine, Eileen (Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association, 2002)

This paper begins with a description of the elements of a Problem Resolving Action Research Model (PRAR) that I have developed (Piggot-Irvine, 2001) for working with groups in management development. The model has many ...

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