School Administration

This study seeks to identify the Islamic cultural phenomena that affected Hausa women's participation in continuing education programs in Northern Nigeria. During the 1970's and the 1980's, widening access to post-primary education and encouraging the participation of especially…

This research project examines the relationship between international school enrichment program models and their impact on the affective characteristics of high achieving students. The enrichment program model chosen for this study was the second-language program at the Rabat Am…

Primary school enrollment rates in Pakistan are far lower than in countries facing similar economic circumstances. The problem is particularly severe for girls in poor families and rural areas. To address this problem, the Balochistan Education Foundation with technical support …

Over the past decade much has changed in the United States schools. The number of minority students in U.S. continues to increase. The number of ethnically diverse teachers is declining. By the year 2000, it estimated that minority students will compromise 33% of the school popu…

The primary purpose of this thesis is to offer an approach to building a culture of leadership based on the Prophet Muhammad's teaching of love in Islamic schools. Since people are strongly motivated by values they deeply adhere to, the paradigms used as rationale for this study…

This study examined the effects of the introduction of a block schedule during the first year of its implementation. Using qualitative data gathered throughout the year, this research examined the benefits and weaknesses of the block schedule through the perceptions of the stude…

A growing awareness of the need for career-long learning on the part of educators as well as the increasing number of educators in mid-career have encouraged research and discussion concerning the needs and motivation of mid-career teachers. Some have maintained a vigorous inter…

Scope and method of study. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the professional teaching competency of the instructors of the Institute of Agriculture Sabah, Malaysia. A survey was carried out at the Institute towards the end of the semester in November 1998, involving the …

The focus of this study is to find out the difference in perceptions of teachers on principal effectiveness among two groups of secondary school teachers in Malaysia, namely: (1) graduate and non-graduate teachers, and (2) junior and senior teachers, in seven dimensions of princ…

This study examined the perceptions of Palestinian superintendents and their superiors at the Ministry of Education of the superintendents' roles and training needs. All 16 Palestinian superintendents and four General Directors from the Palestinian Ministry of Education were int…

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of supervisors as educational leaders in nine private schools in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. It examines the administrative and leadership duties as viewed by teachers, supervisors and inspectresses. The study categorie…

The purpose of this study was to identify directions for improving elementary teacher education in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This exploratory study examined three conceptual themes: (1) the characteristics of productive teacher education, (2) the context for teacher educatio…

This study was undertaken as an inquiry into the educational development of Pakistan during the period 1958-1988. Its major focus is a political-economic analysis of educational policy-making, planning and implementation under three regimes. Its three main objectives are: (1) To…

This study tests three hypotheses, regarding the (possible) effect of culture on performance. First, the more widely employees of a district office (kandep) share norms and values, the better the kandep will perform. Second, the better the cooperation among sections in the kande…

Leadership scholars and researchers have still not come to an agreement as to what the nature of leadership is. Most research within leadership studies has been grounded in preconceived or stated definitions of leadership. However, very little information exists about people's e…

Recent research asserts the importance of creating schools as learning communities. Proponents argue that small schools are more likely to foster community. However, school size research has yielded ambiguous findings about the relationship between size and student outcomes. The…

Lack of participation in the school by the minority parents is related to lack of support from the school to attract and to involve these parents. This ethnographic research studies the perceptions of seventeen English speaking, immigrant, minority parents regarding participatio…

This is a study in education administrative structure. It is an investigation of a modern upazila parishad (county council) and deals with modernization of primary school administration in the traditional culture of Bangladesh in the light of Max Weber's theory of bureaucracy. T…

This constructivist field study uses computerized text analysis to identify themes that emerge from an investigation into what two stakeholder groups in an international community in Saudi Arabia feel constitutes "good thinking" skills or dispositions, and the factors that enhan…

This study was designed to examine four Catholic school classrooms to further understand private education in Indonesia. Private education in Indonesia accounts for over 30% of the education system (Ministry of Education and Culture, 1999). In addition, the government of Indones…