The influence of context and culture on the practice leadership is viewed through lens research successful school as part International Successful School Principalship Project Leadership Development Network. Through examples that describe work principals, models derived from these experiences, it argued do but there now a substantial body across diverse contexts cultures indicates core characte...

If professionals are to be equipped better to meet the needs of modern health care systems and the standards of practice required, significant educational change is still required. Educational change requires leadership, and lack of educational leadership may have impeded change in the past. In practical terms standards refer to outcomes, and thus an outcome based approach to clinical education...

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5 Collective leadership is linked to student achievement through teacher motivation (strongest) and characteristics of work settings, such as school and district size, or the age of the students taught. Introduction Educational leadership can have strong, positive, although indirect, effects on student learning. The full report of our study—Learning from Leadership: Investigating the Links to I...

Two of the 8 recommendations in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies report on the future of nursing call for increased leadership by nurses. While nurses alone cannot transform health care, they do need a stronger voice in health care systems, and they need better educational preparation as members of the health care leadership team.

Academic Intelligence Academic intelligence refers to the coalescence of memory and analytical abilities to constitute the conventional notion of intelligence—the abilities needed to recall and recognize, and analyze, evaluate, and judge information. These abilities are typically measured by quintessential standardized tests. Research on the relationship between these abilities and leadership, ...

I exam ine three m ain issues, wh ich are d irectly linked to school management developments in Sou th A fr ica since 1994 : school leadership and managem ent; professionalisation of principalship through the South African Standard for School Leadership (SASSL); and leading and managing the learning school. In exploring these issues I draw mainly on a systematic and comprehensive literature rev...

Leadership is important to health science education. For program effectiveness, directors should possess leadership skills to appropriately lead and manage their departments. Therefore, it is important to explore the leadership styles of programs' leaders as health science education is undergoing reform. Program directors of two and four-year health information management programs were surveyed...