This study examined how school leadership at Urban Alternative High School (UAHS) adequately addresses the needs of at-risk alternative school students. The school's principal, Joe, was different from other traditional and alternative school principals in that most have been una…
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This study explored the roles, beliefs and behaviors of three reputationally effective secondary school headteachers in Karachi, Pakistan. It selected one head from each of three types of schools—government, community and independent, assuming that contextual factors will influe…
This study examines the effectiveness of a new teacher mentoring program that was implemented at Sheikh Zayed Private Academy for Girls in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates in September 2004. This Major Project includes an introduction to the project and a clear statement o…
The research issue addressed in this study is the inappropriate education policies implemented on the Kurds of Iraq during the rule of Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi Ba'ath Party from 1968-2003. The research was carried out within the critical hermeneutic participatory tradition a…
Evangelization in the Catholic Church entails the inculturation of faith within the cultures of the nations. The process of inculturation is a vital tool for incarnating the message of Christ to cultures. This process of incarnating the message of Christ to cultures requires not…
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the economic returns to investment in education by applying human capital theory to Turkey. Turkey, one of the least studied of the OECD countries, is an important case considering both its strenuous attempts to modernize and its ne…
The Islamic Republic of Iran, established by the Islamic Revolution of 1979, brought social organizations, including the public education system under strict Islamic control, aiming to create obedient subjects who defend and maintain the policies of the regime. The education sys…
The purpose of this study was to design a faculty development model for Iranian Universities. To achieve this goal the following procedures were used: (1) Historical study of the development including review of the present status of higher education in Iran; (2) A five-phase mod…
The government of Iran changed from a monarchy to an Islamic republic after the Revolution of 1979. In the spring of 1980, the regime closed the universities for a Cultural Revolution. The goal of the Cultural Revolution was to redefine and redesign the educational system, which…
The purpose of this study was to analyze national development in Turkey since 1980 and the responsiveness of higher education to the needs of Turkey's national development. The study was limited to an analysis of the 1980s because it was a unique decade of radical changes in Tur…
The primary purposes of this study were to analyze the organizational problems of Jundi-Shapoor University and Iranian higher education, and to develop a governance model that could help solve or alleviate organizational problems arising out of current traditional organizational…
Purpose. This study identifies a model made up of 10 Turkish public university president governance roles based on the Cohen and March model (M. D. Cohen & J. G. March, 1986). The significance of a Turkish model of governance roles derives from gaps in the Turkish literature, ne…
This study was designed to assess public elementary principals' perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks to their School Improvement Plan Process and resulting School Improvement Plan Document. The findings for this qualitative study were gathered from results of the School Imp…
Education is confronting some unprecedented challenges today like the issues of social justice, equity, ethics, fairness, and diversity in the backdrop of binaries of mind, body and soul. Spiritually driven educational leadership is one of the responses to the present situation …
This research study investigated the leadership practices of primary and secondary schools leaders in Nigeria. In investigating the leadership practices of primary and secondary schools leaders in Nigeria, the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) instrument (LPI-Self and LPI-Obs…
School effectiveness has been tied in research to a wide range of factors, such as Socio-Economic Status, teacher preparation, quality of instructional materials, funding, etc. Certain elements of the school such as climate, structure, interpersonal relationships have also been …
The Turkish Republic has experienced a rise in Islamic influence in contemporary politics and in society, culminating in popular support for the Islamic Justice and Development Party and their new Prime Minister in the 2002 elections. This influence questions the 'project of mod…
The dilemma of female nomadic education within Nigeria's policies and politics inspired this study. The focus on nomadic Fulbe women questions the extent of their gains towards equal educational opportunities within developmental social policies such as education since the incep…