Search results for "Johtajuus"

Shanghai Teachers’ Perceptions of Distributed Leadership: Resources and Agency

2021

Purpose:Drawing on distributed leadership and motivation theories, this study investigates teachers’ perceptions of resource and agency distributions and identifies the key factors motivating leadership among teachers.Design/Approach/Methods:This quantitative study collected data from 327 teachers in nine schools in Shanghai. Chi-square tests of independence were conducted to examine the associations between leadership structures and power distance, while Spearman’s correlation tests were used to identify changes in leadership resource impact. A nonparametric Friedman’s test was applied to detect discrepancies between the agency of principals, team leaders, and teachers. Finally, Chi-square…

Narratives on access to higher education : educational leadership looking beyond barriers

2017

This research aims to understand the social, economic and political complexities that surround a learner’s access to higher education in South Africa. The objective of the study is therefore to particularly examine the enabling and constraining factors in accessing higher education for the participants in the study. The study looks at the experiences of four young men and women (two men and two women) from South Africa that led to their educational achievements. It weaves their success stories through the complex interwoven social, familial, school and community environments. The narratives have been observed in con-text to existing key educational leadership theories and mainly by evaluati…

Elementary school principals’ work from the ecological systems perspective: Evidence from Finland

2022

The present study aimed to investigate elementary school principals’ work from the ecological systems perspective and which elements of their work are experienced as demands or resources. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 principals. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyse the data. The results show that the way principals experience their work is individual and influenced by several internal and external factors. Some of the most extensive demands appear to be related to interaction with different stakeholders in situations where principals have the role of mediator in solving conflicting situations. Challenges also seem to arise in dealing with elements or issues…

The role of student counselling in school leadership : case study in Finnish and Russian schools

2016

The aim of my master's thesis research is to understand student counselling phenomenon and its role in Russian and Finnish school leadership. This research study shows differences of organising student counselling in schools itself and its role in a school leadership. Lifelong learning as a part of student counselling provides deep understanding of a counselling process and its importance of student's development. Qualitative research method is chosen as a research method and semistructured interview as a data collection method. There were a need of conducting six interviews in one Finnish school and five interviews in one Russian school. Thematic coding and network analysis were used to an…

Investigating Teacher Leadership in ECE Centres in Finland

2016

This study was aimed at investigating the enactment of teacher leadership in early childhood education (ECE) centres in Finland. Theoretically, the study was informed by the emerging scholarship of early childhood distributed pedagogical leadership and school based research on teacher leadership as well as classical theorizing of ECE leadership. Staff from three ECE centres participated as a purposive sample of informants in this study. The study involved participative observations of ECE staff comprising teachers and child care nurses as a research method. The analysis of findings suggested that the enactment of teacher leadership was strong in all three centres. The study identified three…

Investigating teacher leadership in Cameroon secondary education : a case of two public schools

2018

Teacher leadership is crucial in improving schools and enhancing student learning. In Cameroon, the hierarchical nature of leadership and the internal school structures encourage the partition of roles and responsibilities and a clear separation of power and authority. Teachers in Cameroon work within a more imposed system, where the national curriculum is design and impose on them. As a result, teachers do not perform activities geared towards leadership. To improve on teacher leadership practices in Cameroon and learn from exemplar systems (e.g., Finland), it is important to examine how teacher leadership is practiced and how it can be improved. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is t…

Just a leader? Leadership work challenges and identity contradiction experienced by Finnish physician leaders.

2021

PurposeThis study seeks to improve the understanding of physician leaders' leadership work challenges.Design/methodology/approachThe subjects of the empirical study were physician leaders (n = 23) in the largest central hospital in Finland.FindingsA total of five largely identity-related, partially paradoxical dilemmas appeared regarding why working as “just a leader” is challenging for physician leaders. First, the dilemma of identity ambiguity between being a physician and a leader. Second, the dilemma of balancing the expected commitment to clinical patient work by various stakeholders and that of physician leadership work. Third, the dilemma of being able to compensate for leadership sk…

Vaikutusmahdollisuuksista iloa työhön

2017

Tavoitteena hyvä johtajuus : tapaustutkimus koulutusalajohtajien ammatillisesta identiteetistä ja kehittymisestä Jyväskylän ammattikorkeakoulussa

2005

Johtajien moraalinen identiteetti : miten henkilökohtaiset moraaliset arvot ilmenevät ja kehittyvät organisaatioissa?

2020

Tässä artikkelissa kuvaamme, miten johtajien moraalinen identiteetti näyttäytyy organisaatioissa ilmenevissä moraalisissa haasteissa ja millaisia kehityskulkuja identiteeteissä on havaittavissa. Esitämme, että Marcian identiteettistatusparadigmaa voidaan soveltaa myös moraaliseen kehitykseen. Näin ollen myös moraalisen identiteetin kypsyys voidaan määritellä kahden, identiteetin rakentamiseen liittyvän keskeisen prosessin avulla, joita ovat henkilökohtaisten arvojen aktiivinen etsiminen sekä arvoihin sitoutuminen. Lisäksi sovellamme Marcian identiteettitasapainoa horjuttavan tapahtuman käsitettä moraalisiin ongelmatilanteisiin. Empiirisessä osuudessa kuvaamme tunnistettavissa olevia konteks…