Decentralized education systems increasingly rely on a positive collaborative relationship between school leaders and local educational authorities. In education policy, this relationship appears to be taken for granted, while research describes how such expectations fail to account for the complexities of the work of school leaders and LEAs. (pdf).

School Behavioral Threat Assessment (SBTA) is a key process in managing school threats and preventing violence. Using Self-Determination Theory and other theories related to motivation and emotional experiences, researchers examined the implementation of SBTA by school personnel. (pdf)

Varför lämnar så många rektorer sina jobb? Ny forskning vid Umeå universitet visar att press och svårigheter att prioritera och orientera sig i arbetet är två avgörande faktorer. Studien ger också en verksamhetsspecifik bild av skolvardagen och visar att situationen går att påverka, både för rektorerna själva och för huvudmännen.

I arbetet med att stötta barn i socioekonomiskt utsatta områden kan fritidshemmet ha stor betydelse. En ny studie visar att rektorer i dessa områden tror att fritidshemmet skulle kunna få en avgörande roll – bara alla barn fick delta.

Time-Lapse Leadership offers a way to view leadership from a distance for greater clarity, writes Fred Ende.

Doktorsavhandling av Åsa Melander: This mixed-methods study explores education for high achieving students in England and Sweden through a lens of equity and fairness. It is based on interviews with headteachers of secondary (equivalent) schools and includes schools with different results and in different socioeconomic areas. National curricula statements that all students should get suitable…

Drawing on debates in multicultural education (MCE), we examine how leaders in a Catholic and a State-Controlled post-primary school, alongside policy workers, respond to racial diversity. 

Norske kommuner vet for lite om hvordan de skal være gode arbeidsgivere for lærere og ledere. En ny studie viser store hull i forskningen om kommunenes rolle som lokal skolemyndighet.

This study explores novice principals’ professional confidence within the context of Sweden’s National Principal Training Programme (NPTP). The significance of professional confidence, an area that has been relatively underexplored within educational leadership research, is elemental for fostering effective school leadership. (pdf)

This paper offers a comparative analysis of how Australasian principals navigated a period of compounding crises. Building on our previous research, this study examines the longer-term impacts and lessons learned from crises experiences. (pdf)

Scholarship studying the role of educational leadership and inclusion for students with disabilities has paid little attention to the role of district-level special education leaders (DSELs). This qualitative case study examines how DSELs attempt to foster more inclusive schools and the leadership challenges they face. (pdf)

This research employed a random-effects model and examined the moderator role of leadership type through meta-regression to explore the comparative relationship between several school leadership styles and teachers’ job satisfaction. (pdf)