Between facts and perceptions: The area close to school as a context factor in school leadership

Alexandra Schwarz and Stefan Brauckmann ()
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Stefan Brauckmann: Department of Instructional and School Development, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt

No SDP15003, Schumpeter Discussion Papers from Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library

Abstract: Concepts of new school governance did considerably change the role and responsibilities of school principals. Due to the shift in their role from administrator to manager, recent research tends to focus on management activity, but little is still known about the interrelation between changing contexts and management activities. In the present paper we propose to expand the school context to embrace the school-related environment, and we examine this broader context with respect to its impact on leadership activities. We illustrate our approach by combining German survey and administrative data to analyze the social composition of schools and their environment. Our results suggest that using administrative data to identify objective challenges to leadership improves the measurement of contextual conditions at school.

Keywords: school leadership; school quality; disadvantaged areas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31
Date: 2015-04
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