This study examined the degree of autonomy experienced by public school principals in the United Arab Emirates under the Emirates School Establishment (ESE), and explored the challenges they face within a centralized governance system.

Collaboration is widely promoted as a driver of educational change, yet policy discourse often obscures the sociocultural, organizational, and political dynamics shaping its enactment. This study examines how collaboration is constructed in Hong Kong’s K–12 system through critical policy analysis and narrative interviews with principals.

This article proposes screen recording as a promising method for studying digital environments in education, presenting three cases of integrating screen recordings into a qualitative design: social media use in the classroom, school leadership practice, and writing practices in multilingual classrooms.

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The underrepresentation of women in leadership positions within higher education institutions is well-documented worldwide. This study addresses this issue by reconstructing the historical accounts of rectors in Poland, as demonstrated in institutional histories, autobiographies, biographies, laudatory statements, and obituaries.

In recent years, inclusive leadership has become established as a theoretically relevant approach for schools committed to equity, social justice and diversity. The aim of this paper is to conceptualise inclusive school leadership from a critical and socially grounded perspective by proposing five theoretically relevant dimensions of practice that support the development and enactment of…

This study explores discursive encounters between school leaders, teachers, and local education authority (LEA) officials within a local school improvement initiative in Sweden. Using a primary school case, the research examines how competing discourses, focused on results- oriented accountability and professional autonomy, are interpreted and enacted locally, and how this shapes interactions between teacher leaders,…