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Julia Evetts 《Educational studies》1991,17(3):285-294
This paper is about the experience of secondary headship selection. Using data from career history interviews with 20 headteachers, 10 men and 10 women, from two Midlands educational authorities, the paper demonstrates some of the different procedures and processes used to select headteachers. Then by comparing the experiences of the long‐in‐post and recently appointed heads, aspects of continuity and change in the headteacher role are explored. The paper argues that although the processes and the selectors’ perceptions of the appropriate candidates have changed, nevertheless other features such as gender, networking and reputing continue to be important aspects of the headship selection process. 相似文献
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Denise Barrett-Baxendale 《School Leadership & Management》2013,33(2):91-107
In recent years the UK secondary educational landscape has witnessed significant change, with the introduction of an ever-extending spectrum of competing government initiatives and policies. This has resulted in the steady erosion of the traditionally recognised role of headteacher. This paper presents the results of a practitioner-based study centred on the professional career journeys of a selected group of senior incumbent headteachers from across Liverpool, United Kingdom. The purpose of the research was to consider key features of difference in the headteacher role over a 30-year period. Five heads were interviewed about how they rose to headship and the influences and events that guided their career choices. Findings include acknowledgement of the requirement for self-directed career development, paucity of skills in preparation for headship, transformation in leadership models and the changing skills, qualities and qualifications required of contemporary and emergent headteachers. 相似文献
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Fuller K 《Journal of educational administration and history》2010,42(4):363-382
In this paper I explore how a woman secondary school headteacher and her colleagues talk about her gendered headship. To facilitate and contextualise the semi-structured interviews, participants were asked to categorise a range of attributes and qualities that have been seen as 'masculine' or 'feminine'. They attempted to plot their perceptions of her gendered headship on a continuum from 'extremely masculine' to 'extremely feminine' in relation to her appearance and interactions in various contexts. Their talk, as they explained and illustrated their thinking, reveals that even from a dualist starting point many have an understanding of the fluid nature of complex, subjective, gendered identities. The rejection of binary notions of gender by some participants disrupts the perpetuation of gender as a dualist concept. In particular, the headteacher forces open a space in which to consider the complexity of her own gendered headship. 相似文献
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Tim Simkins Charles Sisum Muhammad Memon 《School Effectiveness & School Improvement》2013,24(3):275-291
There is a good deal of consensus in the literature about the key role of leadership – especially that of the headteacher – in facilitating school improvement. Yet much of the research in this area has taken place in Western industrialised countries. This article explores the issue of headship in the context of schools in a specific developing country context, that of Pakistan. Drawing on 2 studies of the experience of headteachers in Karachi, the article identifies and explores the key variables that may contribute to a sense of personal efficacy for these heads, namely the expectations generated by the national or community culture, the powers and accountabilities generated by the school system in which they work, and their own individual personalities and histories. 相似文献
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Lynne Bradbury 《School Leadership & Management》2013,33(5):489-504
Twenty women who are mothers and primary school headteachers were interviewed regarding their understanding of the self and how this interacts with the role of parent and professional. The data are read as an illustration of dialogic identities where the self is in constant negotiation regarding how to position as mother and as headteacher, and how they are being positioned by organisational and social structures. Training and preparation for headship does not engage with the person as subject outside the organisation, and this paper provides an opportunity to examine how professional and personal positioning are interrelated, dynamic and vital to how practitioners do and value their work. 相似文献
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ABSTRACTThis paper explores how doing headship may be considered as a form of policy narration. A key role of the headteacher as policy narrator is to tell/sell a story about their school to themselves, their staff and the outside world of parents, inspectors and other stakeholders. The accounts they construct will depend to some extent on their perspectives, commitments and personal-professional identities as well as an interplay between national priorities and situated contexts. They will also depend on who they are speaking to and what they take to be a ‘professional’ response in relation to their policy work in school. Drawing on in-depth interviews with two experienced English primary school headteachers, Hazel and George, and Lakoff and Johnson’s claim [1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press] that metaphors are not just linguistic devices, but technologies of reasoning and understanding, this paper explores the ways in which headteachers deploy different tropes to explain what it is that they do. Metaphors of leadership explored include headship as branding, persuasion and not dropping the ball as well as fighting and parenting although there is an absence of any direct political critique in these two accounts. 相似文献
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Helen M. Gunter Patricia Thomson 《Journal of educational administration and history》2010,42(3):203-222
In the hit BBC TV drama Life on Mars Sam Tyler had an accident and woke up in 1973. Is he mad, in a coma or actually back in time? As the drama unfolds he experiences a world without performance audits but also one without the safeguards for arrest, detention and the interviewing of suspects mandated by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (1984). The acclaimed series has led to flights of nostalgia, not least for a world in which police could get on with ‘real policing’ without ‘unnecessary’ paperwork. In this article, we will metaphorically go back in time to contemporary and historical practices of headship in English schools. If a headteacher from 2009 were to wake up in 1973 what would they understand about their work, what would be the same, what would be different? What taken‐for‐granted current practices might get them into trouble, what might frustrate them – and what might delight them that they would bring back to the current job if they could? Mobilising Bourdieu’s thinking tools, we will examine these questions through an analysis of published and unpublished texts produced by heads about their work. 相似文献
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Roger Revell 《Cambridge Journal of Education》1996,26(3):391-399
This article examines the affective nature of day‐to‐day primary school headship. The author points to differences in the kinds of tasks that heads do each day and suggests that these determine their prevailing feelings. A distinction is made between work that merely keeps the school operating and work that helps the head to shape the school. It is argued that the former provides few satisfactions for heads, while satisfactions gained from the latter are often transient. Spending time with children is an aspect of ‘personal work’ that provides heads with their most deeply felt satisfactions. One effect of the government's reforms is to intensify those features of heads’ work that offer little emotional sustenance, while eroding those that do 相似文献
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Win Findlay Headteacher 《School Leadership & Management》2013,33(2):127-130
Abstract This paper aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on how best the appraisal of headteachers can be effected. It presents an analysis of the findings of a study which compared self‐appraisals of their managerial peformance by a sample of primary headteachers (n=36), with appraisals of these headteachers by their teaching staff. Respondents completed the 100‐item Management Performance Profile (MPP) Questionnaire and the resulting profiles of the headteachers'performance in 10 managerial categories, were compared. In addition, data were generated on headteachers' perceptions of their personal and professional identity, using a semi‐structured interview schedule. The findings are that there is a high level of concordance between perceptions by headteachers and teachers of the managerial priorities of the primary headteacher. However, two groups of schools are identified, in which there are significant differences between evaluations of the headteachers' managerial performance. Interview data is used to illuminate the analysis and discussion of these differences. The conclusion is that staff participation in headteacher performance review has much to offer and that the MPP questionnaire is a tool of value in this respect. 相似文献
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张天瑜 《湖北广播电视大学学报》2010,30(7):19-20
高职院校是中国教育体系中近几年建立起来的一种新型院校,它是培养技能型和应用型人才的摇篮。高职院校学生的特殊性给班主任工作提出了新的要求。如何根据高职院校的特点做好班主任工作,已成为高职院校教育工作者亟待探讨解决的问题。面对新时期高职教育的时代诉求,提出了班主任工作的基本方法,班主任在学生工作中的作用以及班主任工作的注意事项。 相似文献
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Marianne Coleman 《Educational research; a review for teachers and all concerned with progress in education》2013,55(1):13-27
This paper reports on data relating to management and leadership derived from a survey of all the female headteachers in England and Wales. The quantitative data presented here are complementary to previous research on gender in education which has tended to be qualitative. The use of the Gray paradigms in the research instrument has allowed an empirical redefinition of the 'feminine' style of management, but the research confirms that the majority of the female heads use a collaborative and 'people-oriented' style of management. In addition, the key values promoted by the headteachers are related to achievement and respect for all.The headteachers generally make themselves available to staff and spend a considerable proportion of their time in school outside their office. They tend to encourage staff development, often through individual consultation, but only a minority make special provision for the development of female teachers. Male resentment of female leadershipwas found to be relatively prevalent and the majority of the women felt they had to 'prove their worth' as a woman manager. Despite the difficulties encountered, once the women had achieved headship, they were aware that there were advantages in being a woman headteacher. They reported the ability to defuse 'macho' behaviour, the benefits of being unusual and therefore singled out and the fact that girls, mothers and female teachers found them approachable. The relative disproportion of female secondary headteachers raises issues of equity. However, in view of the effective management style of the majority, the question is also raised of the potential loss of leadership to our schools. 相似文献
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徐莉莉 《成都教育学院学报》2005,19(3):67-69
环境教育是当今人类社会面临的主要问题之一,解决环境问题的根本战略是可持续发展观,教育落实可持续发展战略的切入点就是环境教育.文章主要从班主任开展环境教育的重要性入手,提出开展这项工作的基本思路. 相似文献
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张天瑜 《湖北广播电视大学学报》2010,30(9):23-24
高职院校是伴随着经济建设与社会发展而出现的一种新型院校,肩负着培养技能型和应用型人才的重要历史使命。在培养学生综合素质的过程中,青年班主任发挥着极其重要的作用。高职院校学生的特殊性给青年班主任的工作提出了新的要求。如何根据高职院校的特点做好班主任工作,已成为高职院校教育工作者亟待探讨解决的问题。面对新时期高职教育的时代诉求,为了促进和帮助青年班主任尽快地成长,提出了青年班主任在成长过程中应该注意的事项以及应该具备的责任。 相似文献
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高职院校中班主任与学生沟通方法的研究 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
张天瑜 《湖北广播电视大学学报》2009,29(11):27-28
随着高职教育的飞速发展,目前高职院校学生的特殊性给班主任工作提出了更高的要求。针对高职院校的特点,如何做好班主任与学生的沟通已成为高职院校教育工作者亟待探讨解决的问题。高职院校的班主任必须具备较强的沟通能力,掌握良好的沟通方法,才能顺利开展各项工作。结合自己的实际工作,提出班主任与学生沟通的方法。 相似文献
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Patricia Collarbone 《School Leadership & Management》2013,33(3):335-346
The National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) is a recognition by the Government of the importance placed on training and developing aspiring headteachers to take up the challenging and significant role of headship. School improvement and school effectiveness research has, for many years, proclaimed the pivotal role played by the headteacher in transforming and developing the school as a learning community. This paper examines the development and implementation of the NPQH, particularly the Needs Assessment process, from the perspective of one regional assessment centre manager. The views and reflections outlined are those of the author and the paper will use, as its evidence base, the evaluations undertaken at the London Assessment Centre throughout its first year of operation. The author will reflect on the role played by assessment centres, the development of this role and how the assessment process itself is contributing to the training and development of tomorrow's headteachers. The recommendations included and the conclusions drawn suggest ways in which the process of assessment within the NPQH can: (i) facilitate the development of the NPQH; (ii) improve the outcome for the candidate. 相似文献
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《Critical Studies in Education》2013,54(2):115-127
This paper explores some of the reasons that primary head teachers in urban schools give for staying in a highly complex and demanding professional occupation. The paper is divided into two sections. The first section contains an overview of what is involved in primary headship in the English setting and what is distinctive in the urban setting and its impact on headship. The second section of the paper draws on a small exploratory study to consider some of the key factors that influence urban primary school head teachers to stay in their posts. The paper details the emotional complexities and costs involved in this work, focusing on resilience, commitment, and the rewards of doing what is seen as a worthwhile job, which all contribute towards retention in a challenging profession. 相似文献
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《British Journal of Special Education》1989,16(3):103-105
Janet Pardoe, headteacher, Dean Park School, and Robin Attfield, headteacher, Claremont School, describe their schools' experiences of taking part in the national pilot work on appraisal, prior to the provision of national guidelines. They emphasise, however, that appraisal schemes to be introduced in Salford will in no way be bound by the views expressed here. 相似文献
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Richard Aird, headteacher, and Sue Bainbridge, deputy headteacher, of Baginton Fields Special School, Coventry describe a system of audit model which takes as its starting point curriculum issues. Although it drives an authority funding formula, its educational importance is at a school level and the work of an individual school is described to illustrate how it facilitates decision making by all involved in the school. 相似文献
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The emphasis on more overt managerial actions by primary school head teachers is considered, in relation to the effects of this change on their work‐styles. Methods of studying managerial work are highlighted before the outcomes of North American and Australian research on elementary school principalship are offered. The lack of systematisation and the methodological weaknesses in the British research on primary headship are highlighted, while a survey of recent research reveals the limited knowledge. It is argued that systematic study of head teacher activity could be a valuable tool in refining models for head teacher development. 相似文献