International Journal of Educational Management: Volume 34 Issue 3

Internationalization in higher education: faculty tradeoffs under the social exchange theory

Marcello Romani-Dias, Jorge Carneiro

Although faculty members are regarded as one of the main agents of internationalization in higher education (IHE), research has focused on the upper levels of analysis (e.g…

Regional and rural school consolidation: a scoping study of research literature

Scott Eacott, Amanda Freeborn

School consolidation reforms are underway in regional New South Wales (NSW), Australia. The purpose of this paper is to establish an evidence base of research literature on school…

The arrival of a new principal and the school staff: The former principal and the first weeks in post

Izhar Oplatka, Hamutal Ben Or

The purpose of this paper is to explore teachers’ responses to the arrival of new principals (NPs) into their school. More specifically, the paper poses three questions: How do…

Implementing experiential action learning in the MBA: use of an international consulting experience

Ludwig Christian Schaupp, Elizabeth A. Vitullo

Experiential learning projects require students to go further than the typical theoretical and conceptual MBA coursework requiring them to draw on their previously acquired skills…

School principals’ understandings of student difference and diversity and how these understandings influence their work

Katina Pollock, Patricia Briscoe

The purpose of this paper is to explore how Ontario principals make sense of difference within student populations and how this sensemaking influences how they do their work.

Prosociality as a mediator between teacher collaboration and turnover intention

Takumi Yada, Eija Räikkönen, Kyoko Imai-Matsumura, Hiroshi Shimada, Rihei Koike, Aini-Kristiina Jäppinen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of prosociality, which is defined in terms of helping and benefitting others, between teacher collaboration and…

Comparison of study motivation and job expectations of Russian full-time and part-time university students

Martin Sikyr, Nina Ivanovna Basmanova, Mikhail Abrashkin

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of the authors’ questionnaire survey focused on the comparison of study motivation and job expectations of full-time and…

Classroom practices of teachers on learning disabilities in children

Ranjeetha Golde Vincent, Shobha G.

The purpose of this paper is threefold: to study the classroom practices followed by the government and private school teachers in handling children with learning disabilities; to…

Principal and teacher instructional leadership: a cultural shift

Miriam D. Ezzani

The purpose of this paper (case study) is to capture a novel school culture that values instructional leadership (school leaders and teachers) and serves students in ways that…

An empirical study on the online learning experience of MOOCs: Indian students’ perspective

Rajasshrie Pillai, Brijesh Sivathanu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the online learning experience (LE) of massive open online courses (MOOCs) among the students in India using the lens of community of…

Assessing Google reviews to monitor student experience

Mahsood Shah, Anja Pabel, Ann Martin-Sardesai

The emergence of social media has provided an alternative mechanism for students to provide and access online reviews about universities. These forms of feedback are often not…

Relationship conflict, task conflict and teams’ transactive memory systems

Jason M. Riley, William A. Ellegood

The purpose of this paper is to understand how task conflict and relationship conflict influence teams’ transactive memory systems (TMS) and by extension team performance.