Working Between The Folds: School Leaders’ Reimagining School Life

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
School Leaders ◽  
School Life

The perceptions and practices of school leaders in Christian Education National

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Michael Prior
Keyword(s):  
School Culture ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Christian Education ◽  
Shared Leadership ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Christian Schools ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
School Life ◽  
Leadership Theories ◽  
Interpretive Study

In Christian schools, leaders’ roles include the integration of the particular beliefs of the community through all aspects of school life. This article describes an interpretive study into school leaders’ perceptions of the essential features of Christian Education National (CEN) schools, how they integrated these features into school culture, and their understandings of the leadership by which they achieved this. This research identified that school leaders were aware of the beliefs of CEN. Despite leaders noting that these beliefs ought to be embedded holistically into school culture, the CEN services and resources available to support such inculcation were underutilized. Although servant leadership, shared leadership and vision-based leadership were all described in relation to CEN schools, the leadership within these schools is better understood as informed by the Christian faith rather than widely supported leadership theories mentioned in this study.

Aspiration, abjection and precariousness: The neo-liberal educator’s desire for compliance

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun Best
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
School Improvement ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Effective Schools ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
School Effectiveness ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
School Life ◽  
The Impact

Aspiration has come to play a central role in the British government’s approach to educational underachievement. This article revisits research conducted in the 1970s by Paul Corrigan and Paul Willis to examine the impact of neo-liberalism on the school life of young teenagers. The behaviours of working-class children as described by Corrigan and Willis have become increasingly regarded as problematical by policymakers and school leaders. This article discusses the impact of the measures to enhance ‘student aspiration’ by using quality assurance measures such as benchmarking. The article explores how teenagers now live much more abject and precarious lives than the teenagers who Willis and Corrigan investigated. The conclusion reached is that, in an education context, abjection is imposed on those people who do not fit into the regulatory ideal of achievement via aspiration. The mechanisms that help to bring about this precarious life are identified with reference to Foucault, Kristeva, Agamben and Butler. Educational research into leadership, school improvement and school effectiveness is said to have been complicit in the facilitation of neo-liberal practice into school life, and effective schools are schools that are effective in achieving neo-liberal objectives.

scholarly journals Video-enhanced lesson observation as a source of multiple modes of data for school leadership

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-31
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Hidson
Keyword(s):  
School Leadership ◽  
Curriculum Change ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
School Life ◽  
Multiple Modes ◽  
Critical Interpretation ◽  
Analytical Frameworks ◽  
Lesson Observation

A growing body of literature recognizes the affordances of video in education, especially in relation to lesson observation and reflection as part of teachers’ initial teacher education and continuing professional development. Minimal attention has been paid to the outcomes of video-enhanced observation as a source of multiple modes of data for reflexive school leadership. This article focuses on the data of three participants from a larger set of nine teachers involved in an over-arching study exploring teachers’ professional knowledge and practices following a recent curriculum change in England. Data from video-stimulated interviews revealed that recorded video can provide school leaders with a window onto the practices and processes of daily school life, illustrated here through a focus on evidence of policy in practice. It is argued that the leadership perspective provides school leaders and managers with the analytical frameworks and competencies for critical interpretation of the data.

Family-, Media-, and School-Related Risk Factors of Video Game Addiction

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 118-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Rehbein ◽  
Dirk Baier
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
School Life ◽  
Video Game Addiction ◽  
Effective Prevention ◽  
Game Addiction

In recent years, a variety of epidemiological studies have provided empirical data on the prevalence of video game addiction (GA) in different age groups. However, few studies investigated the causes of GA and could explain why video game playing as a widespread phenomenon leads to a comparatively small percentage of addicted players. Additionally, the existing longitudinal studies mainly consider psychological trait variables and neglect the possible explanatory value of predictors in socialization regarding media availability, media use, and family and everyday school life. In this paper, the results of a two-wave longitudinal study comprising a sample of students from Grades 4 to 9 (N = 406) are presented. The data show that 15-year-old video game addicts had already exhibited a number of specific risk factors at the age of 10. Students from single-parent families seem to be particularly at risk, as are students with low experienced school well-being and with a weaker social integration in class. The data also indicate that problematic use of video games in childhood increases the risk of GA in adolescence. Male students are especially vulnerable for developing GA. The results of this study are an important contribution to understanding risk factors for GA in adolescents, thereby laying the groundwork for effective prevention measures.

The emotional component of teaching. A reflective training experience with teachers

2020 ◽  
pp. 254-267
Author(s):  
Alessandra Priore
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
School Life ◽  
Training Experience ◽  
Emotional Component ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Monitoring Phase

The system of relationships and emotions that develop in the teaching-learning process define the complexity of teachers' education and pose the challenge of bringing out the emotional and affective culture that guides school life. Several studies on teaching practices highlight the tendency to refer to technical aspectsas a key dimension of professionalism, rather than on relational and emotional dimensions that can promote the relationship with student. The creative and unprecedented reconfiguration of professional practice is configured as the outcome of a reflexive process of subjective construction and de-construction of the profession and its development.The paper proposes a reflective training experience, which involved 76 teachers, focused on emotional and relational dimensions on teaching and based on the use of the narrative-autobiographical instruments (diary, narrative, metaphor). The results achieved in the monitoring phase show that the training offered an opportunity to reflect on oneself and one's personal and professional experience, starting from the use of alternative perspectives and interpretations than those that are already in use

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