Request for Question Clarification by
nellie_bly-ga
on
11 Sep 2002 18:12 PDT
Dear dsqueen-
I have been seeking out literature on your topic, leadership qualities
for high school principals and have gathered these.
Please tell me if I am on the right track to answering your question?
Is this the kind of information you want?
"The Artistry of Leadership" an article by Gerald N. Tirozzi
( Phi Delta Kappan, Feb2001, Vol. 82 Issue 6, p434)
examines how the role of the secondary-school principal is changing in
the United States in the 21st century. The need for the principal to
establish a climate in which excellence can flourish;
There is also a report: 'Secondary Schools in a New Millennium:
Demographic Certainties, Social Realities,' by demographer Harold
Hodgkinson for the National Association of Secondary School
Principals; Problems facing principals.
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Bernard Barker, School of Education, University of Leicester,
Leicester, UK has a paper based on field research which explores
explores how secondary headteachers contribute to the effectiveness of
their schools.
Educational Review, Feb2001, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p65, 12p
Here is an abstract:
" Although recent studies indicate that heads exercise only a small,
indirect effect on performance, there is a widespread belief ...that
leadership is a vital ingredient for success. Evidence about
leadership is used to compare and contrast successful and less
successful headteachers. Despite the complications of social context,
internal politics and external pressure, strong heads seem to adopt
similar, well-balanced leadership styles and strategies that correlate
with well-motivated students and staff. In contrast, poor performers
operate a limited range of styles and strategies and elicit a negative
response from their colleagues. These findings match predictions
arising from a classic experiment at Harvard Business School (Litwin &
Stringer, 1966), on which the DfEE's Leadership Programme for Serving
Heads is based. The paper describes how effective leaders motivate
staff and students and indicates problematical influences limiting or
constraining the performance of headteachers."
Here is a literature review: TEACHER'S PERCEPTIONS OF PRINCIPAL
EFFECTIVENESS IN SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN TENNESSEE , By Henry S.
Williams, Curriculutn & Supervision, Central Washington University,
Ellensburg, WA 98926
Source: Education, Winter2000, Vol. 121 Issue 2, p264, 12p
And the abstract:
"The literature on school effectiveness repeatedly refers to the need
for strong leadership of the principal. The principal has received
extraordinary attention in the literature of educational
administration and in the press. The reason for this attention in the
scholarly literature stems largely from the intense interest on the
part of educators and scholars in achieving better understanding of
the dynamics of school effectiveness. Furthermore, the educational
reform movement and the accompanying search for conditions and causes
on effective schools have fueled broader public interest in the
principalship.
In discussing the review of literature, I divided it into six
sections. The National secondary school recognition program is
explained in the first section. The definition of educational
leadership is discussed in the second section. Role perception is
dealt with in the third section. The domain of organizational
development is discussed in the fourth section; organizational
environment is summarized in the fifth section, and the sixth section
deals with effective instructional leadership."
Then I have gleaned the following bibliography:
Austin, G. (1979). Exemplary schools and the search for effectiveness.
Educational Leadershin, Vol. 37, (1), 10-14.
BARKER, B. (1990) The Cambridgeshire Management Workshop (Dereham,
Norfolk, Peter Francis Publishers).
BLACKMORE, J. (1999) Troubling Women, pp. 37-38 (Buckingham, Open
University Press). Quoted in: H. GUNTER (2000) Reviewing the
literature on leadership in education: taking a critical approach,
Paper presented at the Sixth International Educational Management and
Administration Research Conference, March 29-31, 2000, Robinson
College, Cambridge.
Blumberg, A., & Greenfield, W.D. (1980). The effective princinal:
persnectives on school leadership. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
(1982). The Instructional Management Role of the Principal.
Educational Administration Ouarterly, Vol. 18, No. 3.
CALLAHAN, R. (1962) Education and the Cult of Efficiency (Chicago,
University of Chicago Press).
Crowson, R.L., & Porter-Getirie, C. (1981). The urban school
principalship: Organizational stability role. Planning and Changing,
12, 26-53.
Deal, T.E., & Celotti, L.S. (1980). How much influence do (and can)
educational administrators have on classrooms? Phi Delta Kappan,
61(7), 471-473.
Delapp, T. (1988). Leadership skills required in schools. Association
of California School Administrators. 18(2), 3.
Edmonds, R. (1979). Effective schools for the urban poor. Educational
leadershin, 37(l), 1524.
Fuhr, M. (1970). Leadership role of Principal related to innovative
practices in selected schools in Ohio. Unpublished doctoral
dissertation, Wayne State University.
Gronn, P.C. (1982). Neo-Taylorism in educational administration?
Educational Administration Ouarterly, 18(4), 17-35.
HALL, V, MACKAY, H. & MORGAN, C. (1986) Head Teachers at Work (Milton
Keynes, Open University Press).
Hannaway, J. & Sproull, L.S. (1979). Who's running the show?
Coordination and control in educational organizations. Administrator's
Notebook, 27, 1-4.
JONES, A. (1987) Leadership for Tomorrow's Schools (Oxford,
Blackwell).
Kaerney, James (1977). The principal: Teacher of teachers. NASSP
Bulletin, 61, 1-6.
Lipham, J.M., & Hoeh, J.A. (1974). The Princinalshin: Foundations and
functions. New York: Harper and Row.
Lyon, J. E. (1981). Competencies needed by beginning secondary school
principals. NASS? Bulletin 59-66.
Martin, W.J., & Willower, D.J. (1981). The managerial behavior of high
school principals. Educational Administrative Quarterly, 17(1), 69-90.
McCLELLAND, D.C. & BURNHAM, D.H. (1995) Power is the great motivator,
Harvard Business Review, January/February 1995, Classic Reprint 95108
[originally published March/April 1976].
Morris, V. C., Crowson, R. L., Hurwitz, E., & Porter - Gehrie, C.
(1981). The urban principal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Murphy, J. and Beck. L. G. (1994). "Restructuring the principalship:
Challenges and possibilities." In J. Murphy and K. S. Louis (Eds.)
Reshaping the principalship: Insights from transformational reform
efforts. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, Inc.
Nakornsri, Tinnakorn (1977). Principals Role Behavior and
Administrative Performance as Perceived by Selected Teachers.
Dissertation Abstracts International. 38, 7062A.
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT TASK FORCE (1990) Developing School Management
(London, HMSO).
Yerkes, Diane M;Guaglianone, Curtis L.., Where Have All the High
School Administrators Gone?; Thrust for Educational Leadership,
Nov/Dec98, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p10, 5p
Nellie_Bly
