This study examines managerial challenges of Novice Primary School Principals and their coping strategies in the face of these demands. In the absence of comparative studies it can be concluded that there are gaps and silences in the literature. A comprehensive questionnaire to novice primary school principals was the main source of data complemented by a detailed case study and a semi-structured interview with the superintendent of education. An analysis of the findings suggest that the Novice Primary School Principals are under considerable pressure from various quarters. The results are not conclusive whether these beginning incumbents are discharging their managerial responsibilities adequately. Coping strategies employed by these Novice Primary School Principals appear routine. The recommendation made in the study will initiate further investigations into the Novice Primary School Principal. It is possible that quality and excellence will be compromised in the primary schools unless "novice or beginning" managers are adequately prepared and provided with comprehensive on-going support. / Thesis (M.Ed.) - University of Durban-Westville, 2001.

The Swedish upper secondary education consists of different types of schools. One type of school is the upper secondary for pupils who have assessed as having an intellectual disability. The aim of this study is to increase the knowledge and understanding of pupils’ experiences of everyday life in school, and how they perceive the significance of their sense of belonging to this type of school. An additional aim of the study is to increase the knowledge about different ways of organizing the education and teaching. The collection of data started with a national questionnaire survey which was directed to headteachers at the schools. Based on the results from the survey five schools were selected. By participant observations at the schools and repeated interviews with 14 young women and 12 young men, the first person perspective has been studied and analysed through an interpretive approach. The analysis showed that knowledge about the schools different ways of organizing the teaching are of importance, to understand pupils’ diverse experiences of school life. As an example it has an impact on how the pupils evaluate different types of knowledge, but also how they view their future opportunities. Any clear connection between the schools different ways of organizing the education and teaching and pupils’ experiences of their sense of belonging to this type of school has not emerged. Instead pupils’ awareness, confidence, uncertainty, dejection and determination are to be seen as a framework of understanding, telling us about their experiences of their school affiliation. Together they demonstrate a complexity surrounding pupils’ situation, associated to both advantages and disadvantages in school, but also their thoughts about identity and how they perceive being categorized as deviant by others. The analysis also showed that expectations on the pupils, and their possibilities in the school context, are related to a special school culture and to gender differences. / <p>Therése Mineur</p><p>is also affiliated to / är också knuten till</p><p>Högskolan i Halmstad</p>

The Merge Policy for the Vocational and Senior High Schools in Tainan City and County. Abstract The declining childbirth rate and the marketization of education have been the focuses of the education system in recent years and have led to the rearrangement of the social resources and present educational policy. The aim of this study is to explore the merge policy of the vocational and senior high schools in the modern society and education system. This research drew the conclusion through the vocational and senior high school principals¡¦ interviews and SWOT analysis. The following suggestions are four steps: plan, operation process, result, and trace the effect. Besides, the school merging policy could be divided into alliances model, efficiency merging model and cooperating merging model depends on the crisis, organization growth policy and public strategic decisions. In order to merge the schools successfully and keep the local cultures, it¡¦s necessary to combine the external resources and build the cooperating systems. The further research can develop the concrete evaluation indexes about keeping the specific characteristics of the remote schools to be the tool to evaluate the merging effect.

The purpose of our studyis to investigate how the changed Education Act in Malmoe affects the work of school counselor in elementary school and how it further may affect the work. We were also investigating counselors’ views on the politically increasing transparency of student health that comes as a result of the new school organization in Malmoe. To obtain our results, we have chosen to use a qualitative research interview, where we have chosen a semi-structured interview form. We have chosen two theories, Foucault -power and discipline and organizational theory. With the help of our results, we have come to the conclusions that the law is not sufficiently clear about what is meant by "access to the counselor" with the result that there are loopholes to apply. This can lead to students being assisted but not getting enough help. Despite the clear in the law that one should work more preventive, there is not enough time to work on value issues. This inturn means that most of the time out of their work is devoted to emergency situations. The school counselors in Malmoe believe that the new school organization probably is an act out of political interaction and not a way of exercising power. They set themselves very positive about the increasing transparency, because it will require competence by the counselor. The school counselors hope to have a head of student health that are proficient in student health work and understand what the counselors have for education. They want a manager who takes responsibility for the students, a manager that the counselors can discuss their work with and thus develop their professional skills.

Pedagogiskt ledarskap leder till utveckling. Detta antagande ligger som grund för denna studie som fokuserar på rektorers pedagogiska ledarskap i relation med medarbetare. Många lärare upplever arbetsbördan för stor och så även rektorer. Detta visar på en organisation som inte mår riktigt bra. För att skapa utveckling som leder till att fler stannar i organisationen behöver skolutveckling ske utifrån kärnverksamheten, undervisningen. Medarbetarnas bild av organisationsutveckling behöver synliggöras. För att fokusera på skolutveckling och pedagogiskt ledarskap utifrån medarbetarnas perspektiv har jag fokuserat på relationen mellan rektor och medarbetare.  Interaktionen dem emellan kan skapa utveckling, något som är grundläggande i skolans värld. I denna undersökning har organisationsforskning och skolforskning bearbetats och analyserats tillsammans med empirin.  Empirin är samlad genom olika slags intervjuer som har sin grund i de systemteoretiska och Socialkonstruktivistiska teorierna. Dessa har även legat som grund för den analys av empirin som gjorts. Empirin visade att relationen mellan rektorer och medarbetare är god och att rektorerna utför ett pedagogiskt ledarskap. Den visade också att relationen inte användes för att utmana och utveckla medarbetarnas undervisning. Relationen var snarare till för att skapa trygghet, stabilitet och förtroende. Det pedagogiska ledarskapet som utfördes var på organisationsplan, som underlättade för medarbetarna att utföra sitt arbete. Men detta påvisades inte. Förväntningar mellan medarbetare och rektorer uttalades sällan och medarbetarna var omedvetna om rektorns ansvar för deras utveckling.   Slutsatserna är att rektorerna står för den trygghet och tydlighet som organisationen i övrigt saknar, vilket bidrar till att de inte kan vara utmanande. Om organisationen skulle stå för stabilitet skulle rektorerna kunna stå för variation och utmaningar. Relationen mellan rektorerna och medarbetarna är subjektiv vilket gör att förväntningar som annars skulle kunna ställas på en objektiv rektorsposition inte ställs. Samma sak gäller motsatta led. Att rektorerna inte ställer krav på sina medarbetare med hänsyn till deras situation. Det är en ständig balansgång mellan subjekt och objekt, men en distans till professionen skulle hjälpa organisationen att utvecklas. Dessutom kommuniceras inte det pedagogiska ledarskapet mellan rektorer och medarbetare, vilket bidrar till att det osynliggörs. / Educational leadership leads to development. This assumption is the basis for this study, which focuses on the principals educational leadership in relationship with employees. Many teachers feel the burden too great and so even principals. This indicates an organization that does not feel really good. In order to create development that will lead to more stops in the organization needs school development must rest on the core business, teaching. Employee image of organizational needs visibility. In order to focus on school improvement and educational leadership based on the employees' perspective, I have focused on the relationship between the headmaster and staff. The interaction between them may create development, which is essential in the world of school. In this study, organizational research and educational research processed and analyzed with the empirical data.   The empirical data is collected through various interviews that are rooted in the system theory and social constructivist theories. These have also been the basis for the analysis of empirical data gained. The empirical data showed that the relationship between principals and employees is good and that principals perform an educational leadership. It also showed that the relationship was not used to challenge and develop their employees' tuition. The relationship was rather to provide security, stability and confidence. The educational leadership were performed on the organizational chart, which made ​​it easier for employees to do their work. But this was not detected. Expectations between employees and principals were spoken rarely and employees were unaware of the principal's responsibility for their development.   This concluds that principals are responsible for the security and transparency of the organization in general lacks, which helps that they can be challenging. If the organization would stand for stability would headmasters able to stand for variety and challenges. The relationship between the principals and the employees is subjective allowing the expectations that could otherwise be imposed on a principal objective position is not reset. The same applies to the opposite point. The principals do not require their employees with respect to their situation. It is a constant balancing act between subject and object, but a distance to the profession would help the organization evolve. Additionally communicated not pedagogical leadership between principals and employees, which contributes to the rendered invisible.

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Educational administration exists to develop and guide the educational program. Every local public school system is a legal agency of the state for the conduct of public education. State laws usually set up the administrative units for school districts and places upon local boards of education the responsibility for the management of the local schools. Such boards represent the people of the state, and the district, and they perform a large number of legally designated functions

Swedish school law stipulates that the work of student health teams in schools should be mainly health promoting. However, earlier scientific studies and reports from authorities show that most schools work aren’t. The aim of this study is to investigate how principals in five upper secondary schools organize and lead the health promoting work and what challenges they experience in their leadership with regards to health promoting work. The study is qualitative, based on a content analysis of semi-structured interviews with five upper secondary principals in Sweden. The results of the study show that even though the principals have access to interprofessional health teams and good organizational structures the student health work in four out of five schools mainly focus on remedial work and that more must be done in order develop their health promoting work. More focus must be appointed to developing teaching and teachers and student health team personnel must work closely together. In addition, principals must integrate their health promoting work in the systematic quality work of the school.

Syftet med studien har varit att utveckla mer kunskap om skolorganisationen och undersöka hur en skolorganisation bedriver kvalitets- och förbättringsarbete. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer med personer som arbetar inom bildningsområdet på huvudmannanivå och chefsnivå samt genom en undersökning av litteratur och artiklar inom området har studien genomförts. Resultat och analys har sammanställts för att ge en övergripande bild av hur förbättringsarbete bedrivs inom en skolorganisation.  Denna studie utgår från litteratur och intervjuer med chefer inom skolledningen för att undersöka hur kvalitetsarbetet bedrivs inom en skolorganisation. Fokus ligger på chefernas syn på förbättringsarbete, dess utmaningar och framgångsfaktorer, samt utvecklingsarbete inom skolorganisationen. / The purpose of the study has been to develop more knowledge about the school organization and investigate how a school organization conducts quality and improvement work. The study has been carried out through qualitative interviews with people who work in the field of education at principal and manager level, as well as through a survey of literature and articles in the field. Results and analysis have been compiled to give an overall picture of how improvement work is carried out within a school organization. This study is based on literature and interviews with managers in school management to investigate how quality work is conducted within a school organization. The focus is on the leaders view of improvement work, its challenges and success factors, as well as development work within the school organization.

There is an understanding that the guidelines for school counselors in Swedish elementary schools lack the preciseness in what the school counselors should do to design and perform their work. Previous research shows that school counselors find it difficult to both establish their role but also to find their position in the school organization. Therefore, this interview study aims to present the perception of six school counselors in Sweden and discover how they feel about their work practice in elementary schools. We found that the main theme in the study was that the work was mainly affected by the management from the school board. Another surprising theme showed that the interviewees agreed that a better work description might help the counselor in general but wasn’t sure that it would help them in their current workplace. They asserted that a good relationship and cooperation with the school board and co-workers were much more important than a more detailed work description. Furthermore, the study also aims to compare their descriptions of the practical work that they perform, to the general guidelines for the work of school counselors. We found that their work in general was according to what is expected for the guidelines, but that in which way the work tasks were performed could differ from one another. Lastly, the study also contains the interviewees perceptions of their position in the school organization and which factors that simplifies or aggravates their practical work. The majority thought that they had established a clear role and position for themselves. However they agreed that many of the coworkers didn’t have the same perspective and understanding as themselves. Some of the interviewees also thought that the quantity of students they were dealing with, also made a difference on the quality of their work.