scholarly journals The Effect of Principal’s Distributed Leadership Practice on Students’ Academic Achievement: A Systematic Review of the Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Ghirmai Jambo Daniel ◽  
Hongde Lei
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Distributed Leadership ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Principal's Role ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Role Of Principal ◽  
Do So

Distributed leadership as a new scenario of educational leadership has become a popular topic in the contemporary world. Many notable researchers and members of the discourse community have contributed significantly to its development. However, little attention has paid to its effectiveness. Hence, the main purpose of this article is to analyze the existing evidence for the effect of principal’s leadership practice on students’ academic achievement from a distributed perspective. To do so, a systematic search of academic databases was conducted and 68 references spanning from the year 2001 to 2018 were selected and systematically reviewed. Due consideration was given to their concepts of distributed leadership practice, principal’s role, and students’ academic achievement. The findings of this article show that distributed leadership has positive and indirect effect on students’ academic achievement and the role of principal is indispensable. Nevertheless, there is little emperical evidence, a lack of universal accepted patterns and best practices of distributed leadership which strains further investigation. On the basis of evidence currently available, it seems reasonable to recommend scholars, policy developers, and practitioners to recognize the role of principal on distributed leadership and its best practices. 

scholarly journals Exploring the Role of Linguistic Abstraction in Idea-Generation Sessions

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 329-338
Author(s):  
Rafaella Antoniou ◽  
Elies Dekoninck ◽  
Jérémy Bonvoisin
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Early Attempt ◽  
Linguistic Abstraction ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
Linguistic Categories ◽  
Concrete Language ◽  
Do So

AbstractFor many years, both academia and industry have been interested in increasing the efficiency of idea- generation meetings. Alex Osborne's (1953) rules for brainstorming are an early attempt to do so, and have extensively been used in engineering design, however their effectiveness has been questioned with recent research, and a need for fundamental research to establish which practices are useful arises. This study is an attempt in investigating linguistic abstraction in idea-generation meetings, in order to establish whether any best practices can be distilled from the language used. Engineering design group meetings were recorded and transcribed, and was analysed using a coding framework which was developed for analysing linguistic categories as well as the ideas that were generated during those meetings. More particularly, the study investigates the average abstractness/concreteness of speech throughout the duration of the meetings, as well as the switching between abstract and concrete language and vice versa while comparing idea-related discourse and non-idea related discourse switching. The coding framework proposed is considered robust enough to carry out further work.

scholarly journals UNASUR in Venezuela: Mediation, Bias and Legitimacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-598
Author(s):  
Pryanka Peñafiel Cevallos ◽  
Mouly Cécile
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Do So

Abstract In light of the ongoing debate about the effectiveness of partial and impartial mediators, we examine how the Venezuelan government’s and the opposition’s perceptions of UNASUR and its good offices influenced its role as facilitator of dialogue between the two parties. We do so on the basis of interviews with key actors linked to the process, as well as a review of the literature and documentary sources. We find that, although there was a perception of lack of neutrality on the part of the mediators involved in the UNASUR effort to facilitate a dialogue in Venezuela, the parties themselves accepted the role of these mediators because they perceived that, through their means, they could achieve beneficial outcomes. Hence, we agree with various authors that the parties’ perception of a mediator is key. Nonetheless, we make a distinction between two types of perceptions that correspond to two types of legitimacy that a mediator can enjoy: ideological legitimacy and pragmatic legitimacy. We argue that the second type is essential and can explain the significant role that biased mediators play in various conflicts, such as that in Venezuela.

The role of distributed leadership in mainstreaming environmental sustainability into campus life in an Israeli teaching college

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 518-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilana Avissar ◽  
Iris Alkaher ◽  
Dafna Gan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distributed Leadership ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Teaching College ◽  
Level Model

Purpose Distributed leadership has been reported in the literature as an effective management approach for educational organizations such as institutions of higher education. This study aims to investigate the role of distributed leadership in the promotion of sustainability in an Israeli college of teacher education. Design/methodology/approach Based on the Multi-Level Model of Leadership Practice in higher education, taken from Bolden et al. (2008a) and from Woods et al. (2004), the authors investigated how the characteristics of distributed leadership are expressed in three central organization-wide structures in the college (a student group, the green council and a professional development program). They also explored in what ways aspects of distributed leadership promote sustainability-oriented activities on campus. They used a deductive and inductive interpretive approach in this case study. Findings The authors found three organization-level processes that are based on the principles of distributed leadership and that promote sustainability on campus: distributed leadership enables change in the organization’s internal culture with respect to mainstreaming sustainability; distributed leadership encourages collaboration between the entire campus population and between different departments and distributed leadership on campus enables the development of diverse “bottom-up” and “top-down” structures in the organization. Originality/value While the study’s findings indicated several challenges regarding the implementation of distributed leadership in the organization, they ultimately support the idea that distributed leadership may contribute to the long-term, organization-wide implementation of sustainability in higher education institutes. Therefore, the authors recommend that institutions that are willing to promote sustainability adopt distributed leadership as their major management approach.

Management Models for Business Incubators

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Andreia de Bem Machado ◽  
Araci Hack Catapan ◽  
Maria José Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Business Incubator ◽  
Transformation Mechanism ◽  
Management Models ◽  
Do So

The primary goal of this research is to do a systematic review about management models for business incubators. Management models are grounded in three basic pillars: people, processes, and technologies. In this scenario, the business incubator management model is fundamental because it is important for business incubators to meet the demands of new entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. Therefore, the objective of this research is to map the light of the systematic review of business incubator management models on the world stage. To do so, the methodology used was the integrative review of the literature using the Scopus database and regulations, international and national documents. As a result, one of the problems found in these models was that most business incubator management models describe a business incubator as a transformation mechanism, but do not spell out details about the incubation process or models and best practices for business incubators. management for the continuous improvement of incubated enterprises.

scholarly journals Systemic leadership for socio-political stewardship

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. G. Taylor ◽  
S. A. Lynham
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Knowledge Domain ◽  
Business Leadership ◽  
Critical Position ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Large Scale Change ◽  
Do So

The role of business leadership in defining, and enacting, societal values and providing consolidating influences relative to change processes is increasingly being recognised. This role is best defined as one of “stewardship”, embracing the securing of social, political and economic futures. For business leadership, the increased recognition of the ability for it to influence the trajectory of change, and indeed the expectation that it should do so, brings with it a need to revisit contemporary understandings of leadership and how that leadership is best engaged so as to facilitate desirable outcomes.This paper adopts a critical position relative to the conventional “leader, follower, situation” configurations of leadership thinking. Drawing on theory located within the knowledge domain of systems thinking and network theory, leadership is redefined at a conceptual level, hence to understand the processes by which it is enacted and experienced and how, therefore, it can be better practiced in the broader socio-political domain. Leadership is considered as an emergent phenomenon that creates definitional distinction between actors and process so as to provide new insights.The paper includes outcomes of a research study that was conducted amongst business leadership in South Africa. The study covered the period 1984-1994, a period of considerable large scale change in South Africa, during which time lessons about leadership were learned. These lessons validate the significant potential that business leadership has for monitoring and influence beyond the immediate concerns of business itself. The assumption of the role of “steward” typified much of what emerged from that engagement, but also gave opportunity for reflections about revised theoretical frameworks for leadership practice in the 21st Century. The case material arising from this research also provides demonstration of the appropriateness of the theoretical propositions that form the conceptual basis for the paper.

Transformational Leadership: Attractions of Women and Minority Recruits to the Principalship

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary M. Crow ◽  
Catherine H. Glascock
Keyword(s):  
Urban Education ◽  
Educational Administration ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Principal's Role ◽  
Principal Candidates ◽  
Reform Strategies ◽  
Role Of Principal

Reform strategies for upgrading educational administration call for a revised conception of the role of principal as transformational leader and a different mechanism for recruiting and selecting principal candidates, especially women and minorities. This article reports an investigation of the attractions to the principalship perceived by women and minorities recruited into a preparation program that emphasizes a more transformational view of the principal's role. A cohort of 14 women and minorities received questionnaires upon entry to the preparation program and were interviewed at the end of the program to identify attractions, disincentives, and aspirations to a reformed view of the principalship. The findings suggest that perceptions of the critical nature of the plight of urban youngsters, the commitment to improving learning environments, and the desire to create change are attractors for women and minorities. The study also found that these recruits are not attracted to any school setting but look for contexts which support their commitment to urban education and the desire to make changes. The article identifies implications for recruitment and preparation programs.

Social Representations and Commitment

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Bonetto ◽  
Fabien Girandola ◽  
Grégory Lo Monaco
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Second Line ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
First Line ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bibliographic Search ◽  
English Articles

Abstract. This contribution consists of a critical review of the literature about the articulation of two traditionally separated theoretical fields: social representations and commitment. Besides consulting various works and communications, a bibliographic search was carried out (between February and December, 2016) on various databases using the keywords “commitment” and “social representation,” in the singular and in the plural, in French and in English. Articles published in English or in French, that explicitly made reference to both terms, were included. The relations between commitment and social representations are approached according to two approaches or complementary lines. The first line follows the role of commitment in the representational dynamics: how can commitment transform the representations? This articulation gathers most of the work on the topic. The second line envisages the social representations as determinants of commitment procedures: how can these representations influence the effects of commitment procedures? This literature review will identify unexploited tracks, as well as research perspectives for both areas of research.

School Success and School Engagement of Immigrant Children and Adolescents

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frosso Motti-Stefanidi ◽  
Ann S. Masten
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
School Success ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
The Individual

Academic achievement in immigrant children and adolescents is an indicator of current and future adaptive success. Since the future of immigrant youths is inextricably linked to that of the receiving society, the success of their trajectory through school becomes a high stakes issue both for the individual and society. The present article focuses on school success in immigrant children and adolescents, and the role of school engagement in accounting for individual and group differences in academic achievement from the perspective of a multilevel integrative model of immigrant youths’ adaptation ( Motti-Stefanidi, Berry, Chryssochoou, Sam, & Phinney, 2012 ). Drawing on this conceptual framework, school success is examined in developmental and acculturative context, taking into account multiple levels of analysis. Findings suggest that for both immigrant and nonimmigrant youths the relationship between school engagement and school success is bidirectional, each influencing over time the other. Evidence regarding potential moderating and mediating roles of school engagement for the academic success of immigrant youths also is evaluated.

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