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On Goodness in Schools: Themes of Empowerment
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In this paper, the themes of empowerment and goodness in schools are discussed, and a new image of organizations and leadership is proposed, which is based on the Goodness in Schools theme.Abstract:
(1986). On Goodness in Schools: Themes of Empowerment. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 63, New images of organizations and leadership, pp. 9-28.read more
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School Characteristics and Educational Outcomes: Toward an Organizational Model of Student Achievement in Middle Schools:
Scott R. Sweetland,Wayne K. Hoy +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical model is proposed to explain the linkages between organizational characteristics and student achievement, which supports the pivotal importance of teacher empowerment in the effectiveness of schools, and supports the relationship between teacher empowerment and school effectiveness.
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School Participant Empowerment Scale: Assessment of Level of Empowerment within the School Environment
Paula M. Short,James S. Rinehart +1 more
TL;DR: A 38-item School Participant Empowerment Scale (SPES) was constructed by selecting marker items for each of the six dimensions as mentioned in this paper, and internal consistency estimates of reliability for the total scale was.94, and ranged from.81 to.89 for the six factor scales.
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The effects of participation in teacher research on teacher efficacy
TL;DR: In this article, an academic year-long teacher research initiative was implemented in an alternative education school in a large school district in the southwest United States, where qualitative and quantitative methodologies were utilized to examine participatory teacher research as an active, collaborative means of professional development for teachers, including its effect on teacher efficacy and empowerment.
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Interrogating Classroom Relationships and Events: Using Portraiture and Critical Race Theory in Education Research:
TL;DR: The authors explored the use of the methodology of portraiture and the analytic framework of critical race theory (CRT) to evaluate success and failure in urban classrooms, and found that the two features make the two a viable pair for conducting research in urban schools, allowing researchers to evoke the personal, professional, and the political to illuminate issues of race, class, and gender in education research and to create possibilities for urban school reform as social action.
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Confucian values and school leadership in Vietnam: Exploring the influence of culture on principal decision making
TL;DR: In this paper, the decision-making practices of Vietnamese school principals respond to their socio-cultural context using Hofstede's "dimensions of national culture" to aid in this analysis.
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The Interpretation of Cultures
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Inequality : a reassessment of the effect of family and schooling in America
TL;DR: Most Americans say they believe in equality. But when pressed to explain what they mean by this, their definitions are usually full of contradictions as mentioned in this paper. But most Americans also believe that some people are more competent than others, and that this will always be so, no matter how much we reform society.
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Personal Knowledge. Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy.
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