This study extends the literature on successful school leadership by presenting an analysis of a sub-field of person-environment fit, that of person-organisation (P–O) fit, between a principal and a successful school in rural Victoria, Australia.

This article reports the findings from a review of the scholarly literature concerning women leaders in education.

Recently, publicly managed schools in collaboration with Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI) embarked on developing a framework to embody sectoral values, outlined in the ETBI Patrons’ Framework on Ethos (2022). To facilitate the enactment of these values, a national community of practice (CoP) network comprising ethos coordinators was established. This paper investigates the experiences…

In this paper, we examine the role of principals in making schools more inclusive, which means enabling joint learning of all students. The article draws on empirical investigations from 2700 pages of legal documents on how international policies have been handled in two particular national contexts, Germany and Norway. We regard, in particular, school principals’…

Hur kan förskolor och skolor organisera för undervisning på vetenskaplig grund? "Rektor måste vara förebild, avsätta resurser och fördela ansvar", säger Karin Stolpe, som forskar om vilka förutsättningar lärare behöver för att kunna använda forskning i undervisningen.

Skolledare måste, inte minst när det gäller förändringsarbete i en organisation, gå balansgången mellan att både visa sig kompetenta och våga vara sårbara, menar skolforskaren Deidre le Fevre.

Tina Bröms har disputerat med en avhandling om rektorers beslutsfattande. Hennes forskning visar att besluten i hög utsträckning styrs av staten genom juridik och ekonomi, bland annat riktade statsbidrag.

Balancing between conflicting ideals. A study on ethical leadership, gender equality and diversity work in an upper secondary school. The aim of this article is to explore what characterizes principals’ ethical leadership in relation to gender- and diversity work at an upper secondary school distinguished by its elite program profile

Drawing attention to elementary schools in structurally disadvantaged areas, this study focuses ethical and moral perspectives on principals’ work and leadership in relation to contextual particularities

This paper examines principals’ work with democracy in schools, the challenges they face when carrying out such work and what role they themselves consider playing in the democratic work.

Swedish education policy often emphasises that the superintendent, in the form of the representative for the municipality authority, must take more responsibility for the quality of education.

Två av rektorerna i ett förskoleområde i Ängelholms kommun har visat professionellt mod genom att tillfråga huvudmannen om hjälp med att kritiskt granska områdets strukturer och stödstrukturer för sitt systematiska kvalitetsarbete. Resultatet av granskningen kan du läsa i en FoU-rapport.