International Journal of Educational Management: Volume 29 Issue 1

Creativity and innovation in science and technology: Bridging the gap between secondary and tertiary levels of education

Yashwantrao Ramma, Martin Samy, Ajit Gopee

This paper stems from a study which was conducted as a means to first, find out whether there is a gap between the secondary and tertiary education levels, second identify any…

Crisis management for secondary education: a survey of secondary education directors in Greece

Socrates Savelides, Athanassios Mihiotis, Nikitas-Spiros Koutsoukis

The Greek secondary education system lacks a formal crisis management system. The purpose of this paper is to address this problem as follows: elicit current crisis management…

Competitive advantage, what does it really mean in the context of public higher education institutions?

Haijing Helen de Haan

The purpose of this paper is to critically investigate the discourse on “competitive advantage”, a concept that has been widely applied in the public higher education sector, but…

Reforming schools: the collective doubting perspective

Chen Schechter, Sherry Ganon-Shilon

The ongoing challenge to sustain educational reforms requires a learning process through which doubt is induced as a means of fostering productive school change. The purpose of…

School teachers’ job satisfaction and personal characteristics: A quantitative research study in Greece

Anna Saiti, Yiannis Papadopoulos

The purpose of this paper (based on the relevant literature) is to: investigate, through empirical analysis, primary school teachers’ perceptions regarding their job satisfaction…

Involving parents in secondary schools: principals’ perspectives in Greece

Angeliki Lazaridou, Aspasia Gravani Kassida

The purpose of this paper is to report findings from an investigation of Greek principals’ attitudes and perceptions concerning parental involvement in schools – research prompted…

The student-customer orientation questionnaire (SCOQ): Application of customer metaphor to higher education

Riina Koris, Petri Nokelainen

The purpose of this paper is to study Bayesian dependency modelling (BDM) to validate the model of educational experiences and the student-customer orientation questionnaire…

Determining effective teaching behaviors through the hiring process

Gary Schumacher, Bettye Grigsby, Winona Vesey

One bad hiring decision can lead to low student achievement. Research supports that teachers are the most influential factor in student success. As a result, principals’ current…