Download or read book Primary School Leadership in Cambodia written by Thida Kheang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the relationship between context and leadership in post-conflict Cambodia. Building on the understanding that approaches to leadership are tightly woven within the contexts that leaders operate, the authors examine the case of primary school leadership in Cambodia. A low-income and post-conflict society rocked by civil war and genocide between the 1960s and the 1990s, the country is – perhaps unsurprisingly – faced with numerous challenges as it engages in the process of national rehabilitation and reconstruction, particularly in relation to the education system. The authors provide a comprehensive historical background to primary school leadership not only in Cambodia, but in post-conflict environments more broadly: informing school leadership preparation, development and support, and facilitating understanding of the context in which school leaders work. This book will be of value to students and scholars of primary school education and education in post-conflict countries, as well as to practitioners and policy makers.
Download or read book Leadership Development Needs of Cambodian Primary School Principals and Deputy Principals written by Nilroath Long and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Leadership Standards written by Sophal Horn and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership standards or frameworks describing capabilities for school leaders have become common in today’s educational landscape. Recently, Cambodia crafted a draft Professional Competency Standards for School Principals in General Education (PCSSPGE) in response to contemporary educational trends. This study investigated the current knowledge and perceptions of Cambodian secondary school principals, in one school district, regarding their progress toward implementation of the draft PCSSPGE. Mixed methods were employed utilising a questionnaire with 12 purposively selected principals to gain insights into their leadership capabilities in implementing the draft PCSSPGE. Subsequent semi-structured interviews with five volunteers were conducted to acquire in-depth perceptions of their leadership capabilities, challenges, and support required to implement the draft PCSSPGE. Descriptive statistical measures from questionnaire data combined with thematic analysis from interview data informed the findings. Participants perceived the draft PCSSPGE as a managerial-based framework, likely due to their substantial engagement in managerial and administrative work requirements. They collectively perceived Personal Excellence as their most capable domain, particularly managing personal effectiveness. Personal qualities and support from the system leaders were identified as contributing factors to this capability. Despite Stakeholder Engagement collectively reported from the questionnaire data as the second most capable domain, interview transcripts revealed challenges caused by non-engagement from stakeholders, particularly parents and community who had limited educational background. The participants collectively perceived least capability in exercising Strategic Thinking and Innovation, particularly making informed decisions. This was linked to the principals’ leadership knowledge gap and centralised processes of the Cambodian education system that maintained principals’ focus on managerial tasks. Participants also perceived less capability within Managerial Leadership, specifically managing school resources and systems largely due to the insufficiency of resources, including school finance, learning facilities and human resources. Suggested support for implementation of the draft PCSSPGE included a systemwide change of principals’ recruitment criteria, training before implementing the draft PCSSPGE, and continuous support and monitoring of the implementation. Implications of this study suggest that improvement in the quality of Cambodian education would also require parental and community engagement with educational matters and increased resourcing for schools to enable principals to shift from being managers to instructional leaders.
Download or read book Education in Cambodia written by Vincent McNamara and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the most comprehensive account yet published about the education system in Cambodia. It covers all system levels and draws upon the knowledge and insights of a wide range of leading Cambodian and foreign scholars. The book focuses on how the system has developed and is making progress. Significant achievements over the past two decades are evident, but many problems remain, including the poor quality of teaching, research and institutional management. Under-funding is an ongoing obstacle, but so too is a bureaucratic culture of resistance to change, a history of weak governance, and an anti-reform sentiment deriving from a teacher-centred and exam-driven curriculum. Achieving international standards must now be the system’s highest priority. To this end, the system must rid itself of conservatism, complacency and manipulation by parochial vested interests.
Download or read book Primary School Leadership in Post Conflict Rwanda written by Gilbert Karareba and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the current status of primary schools in Rwanda and the history behind their development. It argues that current primary school leaders in the area encounter a wide range of problems relating to conflict prevention, teachers' and school leaders' professionalism, financial and resourcing constraints, student attrition, and parental disengagement, many of which can be attributed to the legacies of war and the genocide in 1994. The book also presents a range of strategies that are pursued by school leaders while dealing with these concerns, as the Rwandan government invests in reconstructing education following the country's turmoil. Through examining the issues of the past and the present, the book provides valuable insights for researchers of educational leadership, school leaders, education policy makers, and those in charge of preparing, developing, and implementing professional development programmes for school leaders and teachers in Rwanda, as well as in other post-war and developing countries.
Download or read book Planning Your Qualitative Research Thesis and Project written by Tom O'Donoghue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of Planning Your Qualitative Research Thesis and Project provides easily accessible worked examples and valuable models which can be used as guides for plans and proposals. By demonstrating the thought and forward planning that is required when proposing a credible interpretivist study, this book provides the reader with all the theory and practical understanding necessary to conduct a successful qualitative research project. This new edition provides examples of contemporary topics related to a range of countries across the developed and developing world, and new chapters which include: An example of a ‘perspectives‘ study Policy studies and the interpretivist paradigm Life history studies Interactionist historical studies The interpretivist paradigm and research based on ‘problem focused‘ ideas With chapters and studies providing contemporary and relevant examples, this new edition is the perfect introductory guide for students looking to complete their first qualitative thesis project. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it is an accessible introduction, and an invaluable resource for early stage doctoral students, and for students undertaking research and enquiry.
Download or read book Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World written by Fernando M. Reimers and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents a comparative study on how large-scale professional development programs for teachers are designed and implemented. Around the world, governments and educators are recognizing the need to educate students in a broad range of higher order cognitive skills and socio-emotional competencies, and providing effective opportunities for teachers to develop the expertise needed to teach these skills is a crucial aspect of effective implementation of curricula which include those goals. This study examines how large-scale efforts to empower teachers for deeper instruction have been designed, how they have been implemented, and their outcomes. To do so, it investigates six programs from England, Colombia, Mexico, India, and the United States. Though all six are intended to broaden and deepen students’ curricular aspirations, each takes this expansion of curricular goals in a different direction. The ambitious education reforms studied here explicitly focus on building teachers’ capacity to teach on a broader set of goals. Through a discerning analysis of program documents, evaluations, and interviews with senior leaders and participants in the programs, the book identifies the various theories of action used in these programs, examines how they were implemented, and discusses what they achieved. As such, it offers an indispensable resource for education leaders interested in designing and implementing professional development programs for teachers that are aligned with ambitious instructional goals.
Download or read book In History and Education from the Munster Blackwater to the Indian Ocean written by Tom O’Donoghue and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this auto-ethnography, which is a contribution to a form of writing only recently adopted by historians, the author provides an exposition of how, since 1957, he has been located in education currents flowing through various exotic lands. He addresses how, in participating in that flow, he has been influenced by historical events in which he participated, along with broader societal events reaching back over 150 years. As such, this book is illuminative on education developments in education in Ireland and internationally over the last 70 years in relation to a longer time-scale. It commences with an account of the author’s early life and schooling in County Waterford, Ireland, addresses his undergraduate years in London and Limerick, and reflects on 13 years of school teaching and studying for postgraduate degrees at Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. An account of the author’s life and academic work in Papua New Guinea, Australia, Singapore, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Malaysia then follows.
Download or read book Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2020 written by Alexander W. Wiseman and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Annual Review of Comparative and International Education covers significant developments in the field of comparative and international education. This 2020 edition begins with a collection of discussion essays about comparative education trends and directions written by both professional and scholarly leaders.
Download or read book Guidelines for the Leadership Development of Primary School Principals Under the Jurisdiction of Phnom Penh Municipal Department of Education Youth and Sport in Cambodia written by Sina Thong and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research was 1) to study the theoretical framework of leadership characteristics and the leadership development methods; 2) to study the actual and desirable leadership characteristics and the leadership development needs; and 3) to propose guidelines for the leadership development of primary school principals under the jurisdiction of Phnom Penh Municipal Department of Education, Youth and Sport in Cambodia. The population was 164 primary school principals. Research instruments were literature review, semi-structured interview, questionnaires, and evaluation form. The data were analyzed by using mean, standard deviation, modified priority needs index (PNI modified), and content analysis. The results were concluded as follows:1) The theoretical framework of leadership characteristics was composed of 10 characteristics including (1) valuing people, (2) developing people, (3) building community, (4) displaying authenticity, (5) envisioning the future, (6) sharing leadership, (7) idealized influence, (8) inspirational motivation, (9) intellectual stimulation, and (10) individualized consideration. The leadership development methods consisted of (1) building self-awareness, (2) acquiring education, (3) attending developmental programs, (4) getting experience, (5) getting coaching, (6) getting mentoring, (7) attending succession planning, (8) training on LMX theory, (9) attending feedback-intensive programs, and (10) building motivation.2) Overall, the actual leadership characteristics indicated moderate level, including valuing people, envisioning the future, and idealized consideration, were at high level respectively; followed by intellectual stimulation and sharing leadership, were at moderate level while the rest of leadership characteristics was at low level. The desirable leadership characteristics were at high level in overall. The leadership characteristics needed to develop were (1) building community, (2) displaying authenticity, (3) idealized influence, (4) inspirational motivation, (5) and developing people respectively.3) Guidelines for the leadership development revealed that the priority-setting methods were (1) attending developmental programs, (2) getting coaching, (3) getting mentoring, (4) getting experience, (5) attending feedback-intensive programs, (6) acquiring education, and (7) building motivation.
Download or read book Principles of Educational Leadership Management written by Tony Bush and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition brings together leading authorities from across the globe to provide a truly international perspective into educational leadership and management in school and post-school sectors. Covering both developed and developing countries, it is underpinned by a substantially updated analysis of theory, research, policy and practice. Key topics include: - How leadership and management differ in education - An overview of key models of educational leadership - The relationship between leadership capabilities and enhanced student outcomes - Leading for diversity and inclusion and the policy and practice challenges that follow leadership for social justice This is essential reading for anyone taking courses in educational leadership and management at postgraduate level, or as professional development, and for current and aspiring educational leaders seeking to enhance their practice.
Download or read book Mapping Primary School Leadership in a Post Conflict Context written by Shayla Maria Babo Ribeiro and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on primary school leadership in the post-conflict and developing country of Timor-Leste. In doing so, it reports on research that has charted a ‘narrative arc’ comprising the historical background to primary school leadership, as well as the current concerns perceived by primary school leaders and the strategies they adopt when dealing with the challenges encountered in their day-to-day work. This exposition reveals the significant progress that has been made in establishing a universal, mandatory, and free Basic Education system during the country’s emergence as a post-conflict society. It also conveys the ‘lived experience’ of practitioners and describes vividly the realities of their work in leading their schools and communities. The book will be useful for researchers in the field of educational leadership, for school leaders, for education policy makers, and for those responsible for preparing, developing, and supporting primary school leaders in Timor-Leste, as well as in other post-conflict and developing countries.
Download or read book BUiD Doctoral Research Conference 2022 written by Khalid Al Marri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents selected contributions on a wide range of scientific and technological areas originating from the BUiD Doctoral Research Conference (BDRC 2022). It discusses the following topics: project management, macroeconomic factors, Fourth Industrial Revolution, agility, multiculturalism, diversity, inclusion, leadership, language, discourse analysis, curriculum, critical thinking, programming, online learning, and natural ventilation. The contributions reflect the multifaceted nature of the research in three academic disciplines, i.e., humanities, formal science, and applied science. This publication shares with its readers genuine research studies and reflections from practitioners on the current practice and understanding in the three academic disciplines. The significant findings of these studies have considerable educational, industrial, and economic implications.
Download or read book Schooling for Peaceful Development in Post Conflict Societies written by Clive Harber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how, and if, formal education affects peacebuilding in post-conflict societies. As schooling is often negatively implicated in violent conflict, the author highlights the widely expressed need to ‘build back better’ and ‘transform’ schooling by changing both its structures and processes, and its curriculum. Drawing upon research from a wide range of post-conflict developing societies including Cambodia, Colombia and Kenya, the author examines whether there is any empirical support for the idea that schooling can be transformed so it can contribute to more peaceful and democratic societies. In doing so, the author reveals how the ‘myth’ of building back better is perpetuated by academics and international organisations, and explains why formal education in post-conflict developing societies is so impervious to radical change. This important volume will appeal to students and scholars of education in post-conflict societies.
Download or read book Recent Developments in the Education Sector written by and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1996 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christianity in East and Southeast Asia written by Kenneth R. Ross and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the analysis of worldwide Christianity to a deeper level of detail, this volume focuses on Christianity in East and Southeast Asia, covering every country and offering both reliable demographic information and original interpretative essays by indigenous scholars and practitioners. It maps patterns of growth and decline, assesses major traditions and movements, analyses key themes, and examines current trends. As a comprehensive account of the presence of Christianity in every country in East and Southeast Asia, this volume is set to become a standard work of reference in its field.
Download or read book Inside Cambodian Insurgency written by Daniel Bultmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many different types of power practice directed towards making soldiers obedient and disciplined inside the field of insurgency. While some commanders punish by inflicting physical pain, others use re-educative methods. While some prepare soldiers by using close-knit combat simulations, others send their subordinates immediately into battle. While these variations cannot fully be explained by the ideological set-up of different groups or by their political orientation, the basic assumption of the study is that they nevertheless do not emerge at random. This book puts forth that the type of power being utilised depends on the habitus of the respective commander and, as a result, becomes socially differentiated. Furthermore, power practices are shaped by the classificatory discourse of commanders (and their soldiers) on good soldierhood and leadership. The study found multiple ’habitus groups’ inside the field of insurgency, each with a distinctive classificatory discourse and a corresponding power type at work. While commanders shaped the dominating power practices (such as military trainings, indoctrination, systems of rewards and punishments, etc.), low-ranking soldiers took active part in supporting or undermining power according to their own habitus formation. This book helps professionals in this area to understand better the types of power practice inside insurgencies. It is also a useful guide to students and academics interested in peace and conflict studies, sociology and Southeast Asia.
