scholarly journals A Multilateral Model for Decolonising African Educational Leadership: Addressing Conceptual Problems and Integrating the Past-Present Continuum across the Local-Global Axis

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Leadership ◽  
The Past ◽  
Conceptual Problems

Systematic review of research on educational leadership and management in Latin America, 1991–2017

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Aravena Castillo ◽  
Philip Hallinger
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
Geographic Coverage

The purpose of this systematic review was to further our understanding of educational leadership and management (EDLM) knowledge production in Latin America. We conducted a “topographical review” of 48 articles from Latin America published in eight “core” EDLM journals published between 1991 and 2017. Data analysis focused on analyzing identified modal trends as well as highlighting variability in patterns of knowledge production. Notably, 75% of the studies had been published in the past 10 years, and 56% in the past five years. Geographic coverage was highly uneven across Latin America. While there were 19 articles from Chile, numerous Latin American societies were unrepresented in the database. Almost 80% of the corpus consisted of empirical studies and topical foci were highly diverse. Comparison of these results with findings reported in recent reviews of EDLM research from other developing societies yielded recommendations for enhancing research capacity and output in Latin America. A key limitation of the review was its exclusion of local language sources. This led to the further recommendation for Latin American scholars to undertake broader multi-language reviews of the EDLM knowledge base in Latin America.

European Calvinism: history, providence, and martyrdom

1997 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 227-252
Author(s):  
Andrew Pettegree
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Conceptual Problems ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Church

For students of the Reformation one of the main conceptual problems is undoubtedly the distance between the mind-set of our age and theirs. We look at the Reformation as a new beginning, the moment when the Church fragmented into competing Churches, and one of the fundamental developments of the Early Modern Age: a term which in itself presents a view of progress and change as one of the determining characteristics of the age.Contemporaries, however, had a very different perception; they saw the movement for evangelical reform as one of renovation and renewal. They believed that they were attempting to recover what was best in the past of the Church, which had since become hopelessly corrupted. With others of their contemporaries they despised innovation. One can surely only understand Martin Luther if one recognizes the depth of his conservatism; that his personal crusade was to a large extent fuelled by a sense of moral outrage and indignation at what the papacy had done to his Church.

An Economic Perspective on Employee Participation

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Marsden ◽  
Almudena Cañibano
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Performance Effects ◽  
Conceptual Problems ◽  
Participatory Practices ◽  
Selection Of

The approach of this article is to look at participation against the canvas of the employment relationship, its organization, core processes, and their outcomes for organizational performance and social well-being. The article starts with a brief historical overview of developments over the past forty years because it is useful to set theories in their wider historical context: why people posed the questions they did at a particular time. It then reviews a selection of the major theoretical approaches that illustrate the broad tent which encompasses the ‘economic approach’. The article considers the diffusion and the ecology of participatory practices and how these have been interpreted. Next, it presents a partial survey of recent quantitative work on the performance effects of participatory practices updating that of Levine and Tyson. Finally, the article examines some of the conceptual problems posed by these studies.

The sociolinguistic situation of ‘contemporary dialects of French’ in France today: an overview of recent contributions on the dialectalisation of Standard French

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILIPPE BLANCHET ◽  
NIGEL ARMSTRONG
Keyword(s):  
Local Variation ◽  
Complex Situation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Regional Dialects ◽  
Conceptual Problems

This article presents a synthesis of the sociolinguistic situation of what the authors refer to as the ‘contemporary dialects’ of French in the France of today. The introduction emphasises the methodological and conceptual problems attending any such definition and evaluation, attempting to clarify the complex situation and to identify the various kinds of ‘dialects’, ‘uses’ and ‘speakers’. We then concentrate on the regional ‘dialects’ of French in continental France, urban and rural, and summarise a series of important recent studies, concentrating on local variation. We also distinguish the sociolinguistic situations of the northern and the southern parts of the country. Even though France is known to be a highly centralised country, whose linguistic policy has been aiming at monolingualism for the past two centuries, the article offers some possibly surprising and nuanced results that show more variation than established opinion would generally admit about contemporary France.

Couplets

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Massumi
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Conceptual Problems

In Couplets, Brian Massumi presents twenty-four essays that represent the full spectrum of his work during the past thirty years. Conceived as a companion volume to Parables for the Virtual, Couplets addresses the key concepts of Parables from different angles and contextualizes them, allowing their stakes to be more fully felt. Rather than organizing the essays chronologically or by topic, Massumi pairs them into couplets to encourage readers to make connections across conventional subject matter categories, to encounter disjunctions, and to link different phases in the evolution of his work. In his analyses of topics ranging from art, affect, and architecture to media theory, political theory, and the philosophy of experience, Massumi charts a field on which a family of conceptual problems plays out in ways that bear on the potentials for acting and perceiving the world. As an essential guide to Massumi's oeuvre, Couplets is both a primer for his new readers and a supplemental resource for those already engaged with his thought.

Systematic review of research on educational leadership and management in Muslim societies

2020 ◽  
pp. 174114322097365
Author(s):  
Eman I Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
K 12

This article reports the results of a systematic review of research on educational leadership and management (EDLM) in Muslim societies. Quantitative methods were employed to examine 362 articles published in eight core international EDLM journals. This review examined general patterns of knowledge production, as well as research topics, conceptual models, and methods employed by scholars in Muslim societies. The results show that 44% of the articles had been published in the past 4 years, and 67% in the past 8 years. Turkey, Malaysia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) qualified as the largest producers of knowledge production (45.6%). Almost 88.4% of the literature consisted of empirical studies with topical foci focused on leadership in K-12, principals, organizational behavior, climate, and culture. Recommendations were provided to advance the development of knowledge production in the field.

scholarly journals Leading Rwandan Primary Schools: Some Deliberations on the Past, Present, and Future

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-98
Author(s):  
Gilbert Karareba ◽  
Simon Clarke ◽  
Tom O’Donoghue
Keyword(s):  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Past

This article is premised on the belief that research on educational leadership should embrace different settings. Accordingly, a Rwandan study is reported informed by three interrelated aims regarding primary school leadership: to understand its historical background from colonial times to 1994 (the genocide year), to understand developments occurring from 1994 to 2014, and to understand perspectives of primary school leaders on their concerns. Data gathering methods comprised interviews, document analysis, and observation. Key outcomes of the study are articulated according to propositions relating to each research aim illuminating the past, present, and future of primary school leadership in Rwanda.

The past conditional verb form in French children: the role of semantics in late grammatical development

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-189
Author(s):  
Yves Boloh ◽  
Christian Champaud
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Old French ◽  
Weak Support ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Grammatical Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
Conceptual Problems

ABSTRACTAs shown by Bowerman (1986), it has proved remarkably difficult to find clear-cut interpretations of why children face problems with conditionals. The present study reassesses a part of this puzzle by analysing four- to eight-year-old French children's acquisition of conditional verb forms. Relevant data in the literature and results of an experiment designed to gain information on the temporal meaning of young children's past conditional verb forms are presented and discussed. Among others, they are shown to provide weak support for interpretations stressing the role of conceptual problems and related mapping problems. Meeting one of Slobin's (1985) proposals, an interpretation is suggested that views the lateness of the past conditional verb form as due to an unexpected juxtaposition of ‘possibility’ and ‘non-possibility’ in its semantic representation. It is argued that such a juxtaposition cannot be achieved on the sole basis of cognitive development and that it requires the preliminary mastery of the conditional verb form.

Methodological, Measurement, and Conceptual Problems in the Study of Instructional Leadership

1988 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Leadership ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
First Generation ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Conceptual Problems ◽  
Conceptual Difficulties ◽  
Made In

During the past 10 years a good deal of attention has been devoted to examining the role that school administrators play in improving learning outcomes for students. One theme that has received considerable emphasis is the instructional leadership dimension of administrative activity. In this article a comprehensive review of the research in the area of instructional leadership is provided. I report on progress that has been made in overcoming first generation research difficulties in this area, describe some of the more deep-rooted conceptual difficulties that have been less amenable to resolution, and analyze problem areas in the study of instructional leadership that have heretofore received little scrutiny. For purposes of organizational clarity, weaknesses in the studies of instructional leadership are grouped under the three headings of methodological, measurement, and conceptual problems. Within these three areas, particular attention is devoted to analyzing problems that emerge from (a) relying on a job analysis approach to defining instructional leadership, (b) failing to adequately consider both the micro and macro level contextual aspects of leadership, and (c) attributing causality to persons rather than organizational conditions.

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