Societal Culture and School Leadership Charting the Way Ahead     

Clive Dimmock  Allan Walker 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2000,20(2):110-116

This paper discusses four issues emerging from the papers that make up the special edition. These are considered key issues as researchers further investigate the influence of societal culture on educational administration and leadership. The four selected issues target the definition of societal culture; possible relationships between organizational culture, personality and societal culture; the interface between school leadership, educational policy and societal culture; and some of the limitations of Hofstede's framework for guiding the study of cultural influence in educational administration. Each of the issues revolves around the concept of societal culture and its application as an explanatory and analytic device in the field of educational administration and leadership.  相似文献   

Insights into Educational Administration: The Need for a Cross-Cultural Comparative Perspective     

Allan Walker  Clive Dimmock 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2000,20(2):11-22

This article summarizes the case for adopting a cross-cultural comparative approach to the study of educational administration and leadership. In the first section, we state the main arguments for strengthening a societal cultural approach to educational administration and leadership. The second and third sections outline why culture is a useful concept for analysis and comparison in educational administration, and briefly review the concept of culture itself. The fourth section outlines an influential approach for investigating the influence of culture, that of Hofstede, and suggests that his framework provides a worthwhile starting point for educational researchers. The final section notes a number of important issues which researchers need to consider when exploring the influence of societal culture on educational administration. In summary, we suggest that a cross-cultural comparative approach to educational administration and leadership can expose the value of theory and practice from different cultural perspectives which may then, in turn, inform and influence existing dominant paradigms.  相似文献   

Longitudinal outcome effects of non-at-risk and at-risk transition first-grade samples: A follow-up study and further analysis     

Phil Ferguson  Mary Mueller Streib 《Psychology in the schools》1996,33(1):38-45

Fourth-grade follow-up achievement outcome data of placed and nonplaced transition extra-year school readiness samples indicate a nonsignificant standardized score difference, as noted in the second-grade findings. New analysis of correlation data indicates that within-sample age distribution shows a positive correlation with standardized achievement test scores in a study sample of non-at-risk students nonretained or recommended for retention. This age-achievement correlation is strong in kindergarten, with decreased effects by second and fourth grade. Four study samples of at-risk students (students retained in a transition extra-year school readiness program, students recommended and eligible for such placement but not placed, students retained in kindergarten through second grade, and students held out of school prior to kindergarten) reflect moderate inverse (negative) correlations between age and achievement test scores, with increasing inverse effects in fourth grade. Effect analysis and implications are discussed. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  相似文献   

International: A performance analysis model in a development context     

Clive Watts  Paul Wilcox  Ian Hopkins 《Performance Improvement》1988,27(1):20-21

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A Peircean Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Science Students’ Creative Reasoning as/Through Digital Simulations     

Ferguson  Joseph Paul 《Research in Science Education》2022,52(3):773-803

Research in Science Education - In science education, there is a now established focus on fostering students’ meaning making through/as multimodal representations as part of their induction...  相似文献   

Piracy and anti–piracy     

Clive Bradley 《Learned Publishing》1988,1(2):66-67

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Schooling for bureaucracy in Nigeria     

Clive Harber 《International Journal of Educational Development》1984,4(2):145-154

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Durability of cement drain tile and concrete in alkali soils     

R.J. Wig  G.M. Williams  A.N. Finn  S.H. McCrory  E.C. Bebb  L.R. Ferguson 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1917,183(5):625-628

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Central Government and Higher Education Planning 1965–1986     

Clive Booth 《Higher Education Quarterly》1987,41(1):57-72

The development of a planning body for public sector higher education in England has created the potentiality for an integrated planning approach to university and non-university higher education. Following a difficult birth, the National Advisory Body has worked with the University Grants Committee on a range of transbinary issues. The contrasting relationships between the Department of Education and Science and the two planning bodies is discussed and the need for further developments of the planning machinery debated. The arrangements for Wales and Scotland are also discussed .  相似文献   

Textbooks on the move: Transforming a textbook collection     

Yoko Inagi Ferguson 《Journal Of Access Services》2017,14(3):126-137

Recently, The City College of New York (CCNY) libraries engaged in a collaborative project to transfer the bibliographic holdings for textbook course reserves to a new module when their integrated library systems, the Ex Libris Aleph Integrated Library System, underwent a system upgrade. In this article, the Chief of Circulation and the Chief of Cataloging share and analyze the various steps and challenges undertaken to complete this project, which took place over the span of three semesters. This article will serve to assist those who work in circulation and cataloging to aid in the planning of a large collaborative library-wide project.  相似文献