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De Nobile, John, John McCormick, and Katherine Hoekman. "Organizational communication and occupational stress in Australian Catholic primary schools." Journal of Educational Administration 51, no. 6 (September 23, 2013): 744–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jea-09-2011-0081.

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Allen, Kelly-Ann, Margaret L. Kern, Dianne Vella-Brodrick, and Lea Waters. "Understanding the Priorities of Australian Secondary Schools Through an Analysis of Their Mission and Vision Statements." Educational Administration Quarterly 54, no. 2 (February 20, 2018): 249–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013161x18758655.

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Purpose: The vision or mission statement of a school outlines the school’s purpose and defines the context, goals, and aspirations that govern the institution. Using vision and mission statements, the present descriptive research study investigated trends in Australian secondary schools’ priorities. Research Methods: A stratified sample of secondary school vision and mission statements across 308 schools from government, independent, and Catholic sectors in Victoria, Australia, was analyzed using qualitative and quantitative approaches. Findings: Academic achievement was the most common theme, with school belonging and mental health promotion themes cited by over half of the schools. School belonging was emphasized more often by Catholic schools compared with independent and government schools, and by rural schools compared with urban schools. Implications: Australian schools are seemingly adopting a dual purpose: to be academic institutions and well-being enhancing institutions. Understanding the priorities of schools using vision and mission statements may guide researchers, administrators, and teachers about how to better meet the academic and psychological needs of the students. The priorities of schools also have implications for how research in this area is communicated to schools, and this study provides a method for capturing these priorities.
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Hamlin, Daniel, and Albert Cheng. "Parental Empowerment, Involvement, and Satisfaction: A Comparison of Choosers of Charter, Catholic, Christian, and District-Run Public Schools." Educational Administration Quarterly 56, no. 4 (November 16, 2019): 641–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013161x19888013.

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Purpose: This study investigates parental empowerment, involvement, and satisfaction in charter, Catholic, Christian, and district-run public schools. The analyses of these indicators across school types also differentiate parents who chose district-run public schools through residential selection from those who did not. Research Design: A survey of 1,699 parents residing in Indiana was linked to school-level administrative data for the analyses. Parents in schools of choice were first compared with parents in district-run public schools using controls for demographic, school, and geographic characteristics. Parents in schools of choice were then compared with parents who chose district-run public schools through residential selection. Findings: Patterns were largely consistent with charter, Christian, and Catholic schools exhibiting greater parental empowerment, involvement, and satisfaction relative to district-run public schools. However, when parents in these schools of choice were compared with parents who chose district-run public schools through residential selection, these differences decreased. Strong negative relationships with parental empowerment, involvement, and satisfaction were observed for parents who did not choose district-run public schools through residential selection. Conclusions: This study highlights the importance of parental selection into district-run public schools through choice of residence—a typically unobserved form of school selection in the literature. In district-run public schools, results suggest that deliberate strategies may be needed to support nonchoosers. Findings also indicate a need for future research on possible approaches that leaders use in different school types that contribute to greater parental empowerment, involvement, and satisfaction.
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Nekongo-Nielsen, Haaveshe Ndeutalala, and Elizabeth Ndeukumwa Ngololo. "Principals’ experiences in the implementation of the English Language Proficiency Programme in Namibia." Journal of Educational Administration 58, no. 1 (October 22, 2019): 81–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jea-06-2018-0113.

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Purpose Namibian principals are usually placed in leadership positions without orientation and are found to lack skills to supervise teachers in delivering instruction using the English language. Studies conducted elsewhere in the world found that effective school leadership is needed for the success of professional development programmes. The purpose of this paper is to explore principals’ lived experiences with regard to their roles in the implementation of the English Language Proficiency Programme (ELPP). Design/methodology/approach This paper followed a qualitative inquiry with multiple case study designs to explore principals’ lived experiences during the implementation of the ELPP. Ten schools were selected for the analysis, two from each of the five regions. The schools were selected on the basis of remoteness, the total number of teachers who participated in the ELPP, school phases (i.e. primary and combined) and pre-test scores. Principals were interviewed using exploratory open-ended questions, and data analysis produced five categories under which the results were presented. Findings The findings indicate that principals applied their individual logic to accommodate and implement the programme. They applied their individual productive leadership habitus to contextualise ELPP activities to ease their workload and appear corporative. Principals had significant influence on teacher learning and ensured successful implementation of a ministerial programme. Moreover, their leadership skills influenced the ways in which teachers received instruction and created a conducive learning environment. Owing to principals’ administrative, instructional and transformational leadership, many teachers participated and transcended upward and some were declared proficient in English. Research limitations/implications This study research the effectiveness of leadership regarding English professional development programmes in achieving goals, explore power relations between school principals and education officials when developing and implementing professional development programmes and establish more efficient ways of providing a better leadership model for professional development programmes to achieve goals. Practical implications This paper was limited to a few principals at rural schools in selected regions, therefore findings could not be generalised. Social implications There is a need for creating opportunities for interactions among all stakeholders who are involved in the development and implementation of English proficiency programmes and to build power relations and work as a team to benefit schools. In order to enhance programme implementation and improve learning outcomes, there is also a need to provide feedback at intervals and find solutions to challenges as a team. Originality/value Placing principals in situations without orientation triggered the need for specific leadership logic and particularities to be applied in a context for the success of the programme, which resulted in participation of more teachers in the ELPP. They applied their particularities and productive habitus through administrative, instructional and transformational leadership to enhance learning. Principals appointed English language teachers to instruct and mentor others, and consequently enabled some principals and teachers to exit the programme. Principals achieved these short wins upon realising that one has to cooperate with the authority to ensure achieving desired outcomes.
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Huggins, Mike. "Insulin Administration in Catholic Schools: A New Look at Legal and Medical Issues." Journal of Catholic Education 18, no. 2 (March 30, 2015): 204–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.15365/joce.1802112015.

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Stawniak, Henryk. "Prawa i obowiązki rodziców w kontekście zadań szkoły." Prawo Kanoniczne 50, no. 3-4 (December 20, 2007): 31–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/pk.2007.50.3-4.01.

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The article analyzes educational rights and obligations of parents which are realized through schools, including denominational schools and especially Catholic schools. It shows school’s tasks and possibility of joining parents into the triad of teaching, educating and evangelizing. The essay stresses these elements of school structure in which parents can participate and influence the way that schools are running. It answers the question about the mutual relationship between school administration and parents. Should we go in the direction of vivid dialog between parents and school or go further-parents should co-run schools.
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Wilkinson, Jane, Christine Edwards-Groves, Peter Grootenboer, and Stephen Kemmis. "District offices fostering educational change through instructional leadership practices in Australian Catholic secondary schools." Journal of Educational Administration 57, no. 5 (September 9, 2019): 501–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jea-09-2018-0179.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine how Catholic district offices support school leaders’ instructional leadership practices at times of major reform.Design/methodology/approachThe paper employs the theory of practice architectures as a lens through which to examine local site-based responses to system-wide reforms in two Australian Catholic secondary schools and their district offices. Data collection for these parallel case studies included semi-structured interviews, focus groups, teaching observations, classroom walkthroughs and coaching conversations.FindingsFindings suggest that in the New South Wales case, arrangements of language and specialist discourses associated with a school improvement agenda were reinforced by district office imperatives. These imperatives made possible new kinds of know-how, ways of working and relating to district office, teachers and students when it came to instructional leading. In the Queensland case, the district office facilitated instructional leadership practices that actively sought and valued practitioners’ input and professional judgment.Research limitations/implicationsThe research focussed on two case studies of district offices supporting school leaders’ instructional leadership practices at times of major reform. The findings are not generalizable.Practical implicationsPractically, the studies suggest that for excellent pedagogical practice to be embedded and sustained over time, district offices need to work with principals to foster communicative spaces that promote explicit dialogue between teachers and leaders’ interpretive categories.Social implicationsThe paper contends that responding to the diversity of secondary school sites requires district office practices that reject a one size fits all formulas. Instead, district offices must foster site-based education development.Originality/valueThe paper adopts a practice theory approach to its study of district support for instructional leader’ practices. A practice approach rejects a one size fits all approach to educational change. Instead, it focusses on understanding how particular practices come to be in specific sites, and what kinds of conditions make their emergence possible. As such, it leads the authors to consider whether and how different practices such as district practices of educational reforming or principals’ instructional leading might be transformed, or conducted otherwise, under other conditions of possibility.
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Flint, John. "Faith schools, multiculturalism and community cohesion: Muslim and Roman Catholic state schools in England and Scotland." Policy & Politics 35, no. 2 (April 24, 2007): 251–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557307780712979.

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Ngololo, Elizabeth N., and Haaveshe Nekongo-Nielsen. "Teachers’ Views on the Implementation of the English Language Proficiency Programme in Namibia." International Education Studies 10, no. 11 (October 29, 2017): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v10n11p155.

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The study explores teachers’ views on the impact of the English Language Proficiency Programme in Namibian schools that was implemented over a period of five years, from 2011 to 2015. The program aimed at improving teachers’ proficiency in English. The summative evaluation was conducted in 2016 in the following five (5) regions: Erongo, Hardap, Khomas, Ohangwena and Omusati, selected on the basis of the level of participation and accessibility. The evaluation focused on the following aspects of the project: program development, program implementation and administration as well as assessment of learning outcomes. The study followed a qualitative approach using document analysis to inform the development of evaluation instruments and a phenomenological design to assess teachers’ lived experiences during program implementation. Data was collected through focus group discussions among teachers. The study established that teachers did not appreciate the program as it was ill-planned, irrelevant to their needs and disturbed their daily routines. Nevertheless, a few teachers embraced the program and reported positive benefits in terms of teachers’ career development goals. The study recommends the revision of the program in terms of content and implementation procedures. In addition, teachers’ support systems, learning materials and the mode of delivery need improvement to effectively enhance teaching and learning in Namibian schools.
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Merkys, Vytautas. "Bishop Motiejus Valančius, Catholic Universalism and Nationalism." Lithuanian Historical Studies 6, no. 1 (November 30, 2001): 69–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/25386565-00601004.

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The biography of Valančius has been investigated quite extensively by a number of writers (Antanas Alekna, Kazimierz Gieczys, Vaclovas Biržiška, Juozapas Stakauskas, et al.). In 1999 the monograph Motiejus Valančius. Tarp katalikiškojo universalizmo ir tautiškumo was published by the author of this paper, too. In those works ample use was made of previously published and archival materials, therefore the present paper aims at presenting a kind of biographical essay only rarely touching upon concrete events in the life and activity of the Bishop. The Catholic Church, the historical Lithuanian nobility with its prestigious Polish language, the Russian administration (and the Orthodox Church) as a rival of that former Lithuanian political nation, and lastly, the Lithuanian people – these were the four principal factors, which shaped the pastoral and cultural activities of Valančius. In his dealings with the Russian administration he had to uphold the legality of the Church policy and at the same time not to reconcile with the persecution of the Catholic Church and the enforcement of the Orthodox faith. The Bishop was always concerned with promoting a harmonious relationship between universal Catholic values and the cultural values of the historic Lithuanian nation and the Lithuanian people. A distinctive feature of his activity was his attention to the Lithuanian peasantry, treated by him as a potential mainstay of the Catholic Church and as a constituent part of a modern democratic Lithuanian nation and society, without radically conflicting with the local estate society. This societal education of the Lithuanian peasantry was implemented through the temperance movement led by Valančius, through the establishment of schools, the expansion of the social function of the Lithuanian language, the preparation, publication and dissemination of historical, religious and didactic and original fiction writings. Having exhausted all legal possibilities, the Bishop engaged in clandestine widespread anti-governmental Catholic and national activities.
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Kauaria, Vejanda. "An investigation of female leaders' perceptions of themselves and their roles as leaders in a Catholic School." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003508.

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The question of gender in leadership continues to be a contentious and poorly understood phenomenon. There seems general agreement that women do lead differently from men, and this study begins from that premise, focusing on a case in which leadership has traditionally been the domain of females. The case was chosen for its uniqueness, the assumption being that in these circumstances leadership may have developed particular characteristics. Following a qualitative approach (drawing on phenomenology), the study seeks to investigate how women leaders experience their roles as leaders. In-depth interviews made it possible for me to capture the perceptions and experiences of the three women leaders I interviewed. The study reveals that women are more inclined to use interactive styles of leadership. Women use leadership that is more participative, negotiative, cooperative, shared and collaborative. These characteristics are in line with the features of transformational leadership which differs from the more traditional transactional leadership that is more controlled and directive. The study has also shown that leadership develops from within the person of the leader as the leader is the one who spearheads the organization through vision, ideas, beliefs andassumptions. The findings of this study suggest thus that unless women are given chances to prove how they can lead, this new approach of leadership within them and that is required by modern organizations would be lost and leadership would remain relatively unchanged and undesirable. In the context of Namibia, this study should be of potential significance because of the rapid change that is taking place in the inclusion of women in leadership and management positions in education.
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Connelly, Camryn. "Hiring Leaders in Catholic Schools." Thesis, Loyola Marymount University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3638153.

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In the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, principals are often ill prepared for the demands of the job. According to Baxter (2012), every year in the Archdiocese approximately 30 principal vacancies are filled. Many of the Pastors who hire for these vacancies do not have an educational background, nor do they have much experience in hiring practices. With the increase of lay educators leading Catholic schools, not only are competent principals needed, but principals who can be Pastoral, educational, and managerial leaders (Manno, 1985). To increase the probability of hiring strong candidates for the principal vacancies in schools across the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, a hiring protocol is needed to standardize the process, while encouraging collaboration and input from multiple stakeholders. This case study implemented and evaluated a hiring protocol at one school site within the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The protocol was designed to help Catholic schools hire qualified principals, and its development was guided by previous research on effective hiring procedures for such positions. The case-study data collected provides insight into the benefits and of using this specialized hiring protocol while also identifying potential changes to further strengthen the protocol. The results of the case study will be shared with the Department of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to provide a framework for a principal hiring protocol that can be used at all school sites.

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Vincent, Kathleen B. "Principal evaluation in Catholic elementary schools." Thesis, Lewis and Clark College, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3561324.

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Research on school leadership speaks to the importance of evaluating school administrators. Evidence suggests that involving school leaders in the design of the evaluation process as well as including feedback from stakeholders in the school community as part of the evaluation process can positively impact administrators' professional practice. Effective assessment supports the continued development and growth of school leaders.

In the local archdiocese the pastor evaluates the parish school administrator, using a standard form based on the job description and issued by the superintendent's office. The same self-evaluation is completed by the principal and discussed with the pastor. Since the pastor is typically not an educator, questions arise about the accuracy and usefulness of the data generated by the evaluation. These questions lead to discussions about the efficacy of the process and generate ideas for improvement and a willingness to effect change.

This dissertation study seeks to identify perceptions of Catholic elementary school principals about the current evaluation process in their diocese, exposes administrators to research into best practice in leadership evaluation, and shows how these principals collaboratively designed an evaluation tool and process. This action research process tracked changes in attitudes and beliefs about effective evaluation that occurred as the administrators designed a new tool and method for potential implementation in their diocese. Trends were identified and coded utilizing the research questions and the theoretical framework of Organization Governance, Leadership Theory, Evaluation Theory and Change Theory. This qualitative research study adds administrator voices to the developing professional dialogue about effective leadership evaluation.

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Connelly, Camryn Marie. "Hiring Leaders in Catholic Schools." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2014. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/198.

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In the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, principals are often ill prepared for the demands of the job. According to Baxter (2012), every year in the Archdiocese approximately 30 principal vacancies are filled. Many of the Pastors who hire for these vacancies do not have an educational background, nor do they have much experience in hiring practices. With the increase of lay educators leading Catholic schools, not only are competent principals needed, but principals who can be Pastoral, educational, and managerial leaders (Manno, 1985). To increase the probability of hiring strong candidates for the principal vacancies in schools across the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, a hiring protocol is needed to standardize the process, while encouraging collaboration and input from multiple stakeholders. This case study implemented and evaluated a hiring protocol at one school site within the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The protocol was designed to help Catholic schools hire qualified principals, and its development was guided by previous research on effective hiring procedures for such positions. The case-study data collected provides insight into the benefits and of using this specialized hiring protocol while also identifying potential changes to further strengthen the protocol. The results of the case study will be shared with the Department of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to provide a framework for a principal hiring protocol that can be used at all school sites.
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Meyer, Kathleen A. "Catholic School Leadership and the Role of Consultative School Boards in Catholic Elementary Schools." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2009. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/558.

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Catholic schools are important institutions in the United States educational system. They demand discipline, high academic standards, and religious moral values rooted in Catholic beliefs which are designed to have an impact throughout life (Ciriello, 1998). A critical component in determining school quality lies with the principals' leadership (Sergiovanni, 1997). Principals are critical to successful K-12 schools and must exercise considerable responsibility for establishing collegial learning cultures among the instructional team and stakeholders, including parents, community members, and students. The principal can no longer accomplish such a momentous task alone. Success of today's Catholic relies on the competent and committed performance of many people acting together with common goals. Catholic schools do not mirror those of twenty years ago (Cummings, 2003). Within the past five years, principals in Catholic schools have increasing job responsibilities and expectations. With the implementation of the Los Angeles Archdiocesan Strategic Plan in 2003, Catholic school principals in the Archdiocese must fulfill their primary function as instructional leader, and the additional roles outlined by the plan. Declining enrollment, lack of funds, and a perceived lack of quality, has forced principals to market their school to increase enrollment and solicit substantial funds for the school to remain viable. New roles create a problem for principals lacking training or knowledge in specialized areas. Based on a review of available literature, including (a) distributive leadership, (b) collaborative leadership, (c) shared leadership, and (d) school boards, this study investigated principal perceptions of collaboration and implementation of consultative school boards. This study employed a mixed method research design including a survey, interviews, and a document review of the Los Angeles Archdiocesan Strategic Plan to answer research questions. This study found a leader who needs collaborative leadership skills to lead a quality school involving all stakeholders to assist the school in remaining viable. Principals confirmed a need for greater participation by all stakeholders and assistance in forming consultative school boards. Information gathered contributes to the limited literature on Catholic school leadership, specifically a principals' role in implementing collaborative leadership in Catholic elementary schools through consultative school boards.
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McCann, Paul, and res cand@acu edu au. "Principals’ Understandings of Aspects of the Law Impacting on the Administration of Catholic Schools: some implications for leadership." Australian Catholic University. School of Educational Leadership, 2006. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp129.17052007.

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This study explored the interface between the leadership of Catholic schools and the legal framework of the social/cultural context of Australian Society. Specifically, the study investigated the legal issues impacting on Catholic schools, principals’ understandings of these legal issues and the sources used in gaining these understandings. The congruency between these understandings and the current interpretations of areas of the law were also examined, along with the influence legal issues have on principals; in particular, their perceptions of how these legal issues relate to carrying out their leadership roles aligned with the characteristics and ethos of the Catholic school. In this overall context, the influence of a number of variables such as school complexity, location, and primary and secondary school environments was also examined. The study commenced with an examination of the development of Catholic schools within the Australian social/cultural context, an exploration of leadership as it relates to Catholic schools and a survey of the literature indicating the scope and nature of the legal matters impacting on schools within the Australian legal framework. To gather data relevant to the purposes of the study, a Survey Questionnaire was constructed and distributed to principals of all systemic Catholic schools administered by the Brisbane Catholic Education Centre. The quantitative and qualitative data provided via this instrument was supplemented and corroborated by information gathered through discussions, observations, and reference to documentation and records. The findings of the study confirmed that Catholic schools were involved with a wide range of legal issues, involvement being more pronounced in some areas than others, and like all legal issues within the Australian social/cultural context, those impacting on schools were subject to regular renewal and development. In relation to the latter, participants identified emerging areas of the law which were starting to have an impact on their schools. Principals’ overall understandings of current interpretations of legal issues were not of a high standard. However, some understandings, particularly relating to statue law were more accurate than understandings of common law issues. Principals used a wide range of sources to gain legal understandings, and interactions with fellow principals and personnel within the Brisbane Catholic Education System who supported and supervised principals, featured prominently. However, access for principals to designated legal practitioners for advice on legal matters was a need revealed. Involvement of principals in formal and less formal professional learning experiences relating to legal matters was limited, and participation did not have a significant influence on developing more accurate understandings of legal issues. Nevertheless, the need for continued personal and professional learning with regard to legal issues was highlighted by this study, especially considering the continued renewal and development of the law, and the stress created by the lack of legal understandings. The findings indicated legal matters were having a large impact on Catholic schools; 90% of participants experienced stress associated with legal matters, and 70% saw this as an increasing phenomena. While a number of variables inter-relate to form a cumulative effect contributing to stress, participants ranked the most prominent source of stress as lack of legal knowledge. The impact of legal matters was not confined to addressing legal matters per se, but a constant threat of legalism overshadowing principals in their leadership roles. Overall, there was a high compatibility between the ethos of the Catholic school and the resolutions reached, and the process used in coming to a resolution of legal matters. However, participants were more confident in their perceptions of a high compatibility with the resolutions reached than with the processes used.No one variable examined, had an overall significant influence on the understandings, involvement and impact of legal issues on the leadership of Catholic schools. However, a number of significant relationships were identified with particular aspects of the study. Surprisingly, the study did not reveal a significant relationship between the length of time spent as a principal in a Catholic school and the accuracy of understandings of legal issues impacting on schools. It was suggested that the development of principals’ understandings of legal issues could be closely related to the continued personal and professional learning and growth of leaders within Catholic schools, particularly within School Leadership Teams. Suggestions to support this growth and learning were offered as part of the overall development of leadership within Catholic schools.
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Fikwamo, Rodgers K. "Leaders' Perceptions of the Role of Leadership in Catholic High Schools Through a Generational Lens." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2009. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/550.

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Up until the 1950s, Catholic school principals were mainly priests, sisters, and brothers who were well grounded in theology, scripture, catechesis, and the Catholic social teachings they received during their formation. Conversely, lay principals who currently staff most Catholic high schools may not have this same Catholic formational training that helped to form the religious mission of schools in earlier years. Hence, this study was developed to investigate current Catholic school leadership models and the way principals' perceptions of leadership may impact the religious missions of Catholic schools. Additionally, the factor of generational diversity may contribute to differences in principal's perceptions of leadership. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate how current lay principals from two generational cohorts perceive their roles as leaders and how such perceptions impact the religious mission of their schools. To accomplish this investigation, the researcher employed three elements of the Catholic school leadership framework designated by the United States Catholic Conference (USCC), including educational, managerial, and spiritual leadership. These concepts constitute the framework through which this study examined the principals' perceptions of leadership in Catholic high schools. To collect the data and answer the research questions, this study utilized a qualitative methodology consisting of document analysis, observations, and interviews. To conduct the study, six principals from two generations were selected from Catholic high schools in a large diocese on the West Coast of the United States. Based on the research results, differences were discovered between the generational cohort known as the Baby Boomers and those known as the Xers, where Baby Boomers exhibited more future-focused perspectives and Xers demonstrated a strong focus on values. Baby Boomers also connected the religious mission of the school to the charisma of the founding order or congregation of their school, while Xers relied exclusively on the identity of the diocese. However, despite these generational differences, the study results show that the current principals have not only maintained and preserved the religious mission to a new level of forming peer Christian leadership among students and teachers.
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Hipondoka, Oiva Shuuveni. "Managing learner discipline : a case study of two secondary schools in the Khomas region, Namibia." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9477.

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This study is concerned with how two schools in the Khomas Region manage learners' discipline. In particular, it seeks to determine why the two schools experience different states of discipline despite the fact that they have learners from similar social backgrounds. The study uses a case study approach. The qualitative methods comprise on-site observations, semi-structured interviews and a review of disciplinary and other policy documents. Interviews were done with the School Boards, the two principals, heads of department, teachers, Learners' Representative Council and learners. The study draws its conceptual framework from seven factors that are believed to influence school discipline: strategy, structures and procedures, school identity and purpose, school resources, parents and community involvement, leadership and management, and school culture. The study revealed that the two schools have many disciplinary practices in common. However, active teamwork, which falls under the school culture factor, and leadership and management were more pronounced in School B than in School A. Compared with School A, School B was characterized by fairly good discipline, and the study consequently attributed these factors, teamwork, leadership and management as the major cause of different levels of discipline in these two schools. It also emerged in the study that School B has a better academic performance in comparison with School A, which suggests that there is a positive relationship between academic performance and discipline.
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Davis, Jacqueline Estella. "Principals' Perceptions of Parent Involvement in Catholic and Protestant Schools in Southern California." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10846292.

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This study examined principals’ perceptions of faith-based schools in Southern California. A 6-item survey was distributed by hard copy to 217 Catholic principals affiliated with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and by e-mail to 218 Protestant school principals affiliated with the Association of Christian School International. The survey was completed by 148 principals (101 from Catholic schools and 47 from Protestant schools, 34% of population), suggesting that hand-delivered surveys yielded a higher return. However, the Protestant principals who responded exclusively online completed significantly more comprehensive written comments or transcripts to the survey.

Both groups of principals revealed high parent engagement in both types of schools and the selection by parents of a faith-based school was based upon personal values. However, highlights revealed that these administrators placed a high level of importance on open and consistent communication with parents and being visibly present on the campus. Principals were present at morning drop-off, visible on-site throughout the day, and at pick-up. In addition, the schools maintained a current website, frequent parent conferences by teachers and principals, and weekly or daily messages using various technological forms. Principals commented that they desired that every interaction with the school was positive and informative. Principals indicated that parent volunteer activity tended to be different in the two types of schools. Catholic school parents were expected to volunteer to work at the school, and participate in fund raising activities for the school. These parental expectations were vital to the school’s financial base, as nuns continue to be replaced by lay teachers. In addition, Catholic school parents were required to supervise completion of a child’s homework and support school rules, such as children wearing uniforms. Protestant school principals indicated that their parents were active in school-based activities such as sports, the performing arts, classroom support, as well as in school-wide activities such as open houses and fundraisers. Although the Catholic and Protestant schools provided opportunities for parents to participate in the school decision-making process, few principals reported all parent school boards or parents making the primary decisions beyond participation in the selection of the school principal.

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Kusi-Mensah, John Y. "Factors influencing parents choice of Catholic schools in the Western Cape, South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3646.

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Books on the topic "Catholic schools – Namibia – Administration"

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Batsis, Thomas M. Crisis management in Catholic schools. Washington, D.C: National Catholic Educational Association, 1994.

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Theodore, Drahmann. Governance and administration in the Catholic school. Washington, D.C: National Catholic Educational Association, 1985.

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Nerz, Clare. Go and teach: The contribution of the Catholic Church (Vicariate Windhoek) to education in Namibia, 1896-1996. Windhoek: Roman Catholic Church, 1996.

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Drahmann, Theodore. Governance and administration in the Catholic school. Washington, D.C: National Catholic Educational Association, 1985.

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Catholic high schools: Facing the new realities. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

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E, Lee Valerie, and Holland Peter Blakeley, eds. Catholic schools and the common good. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993.

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Catholic schools and the law: A teacher's guide. 2nd ed. New York: Paulist Press, 2000.

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Deneen, James R. A board's guide to assessment in the school: Understanding roles and methods. Washington, DC: National Catholic Educational Association, 2005.

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Association, National Catholic Educational, ed. Policy formation in Catholic education: A guide to legal issues. Washington, DC: National Catholic Educational Association, 2004.

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J, Ciriello Maria, ed. Strategic planning for Catholic schools: A diocesan model of consultation. Washington, D.C: U.S. Catholic Conference, 1996.

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Book chapters on the topic "Catholic schools – Namibia – Administration"

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Rizk, Elie, and Philippe W. Zgheib. "Financial Deficit in Lebanese Catholic Schools." In Advances in Public Policy and Administration, 199–214. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8247-2.ch008.

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Several Catholic schools have been shut down for good and several others are struggling to survive but they might just not, because they are facing a severe financial deficit and a strong decline in their revenues. This financial crisis facing Catholic schools in Lebanon is considered in this chapter in light of declining purchasing power of the Lebanese families over the last decade and the lack of parental confidence in Catholic school's primary mission. The first approach is quantitative: a questionnaire among school administrators and families to understand the tuition and purchasing power variation in the last decade. The second one is qualitative: four focus groups formed of several Lebanese families to try to assess their trust (or lack of trust) in Catholic schools. This new way to understand the reality of the declining profit of Catholic schools will benefit Catholic schools in general in Lebanon. It may enlighten the importance of their primary mission toward Lebanon.
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Shipalanga, Petrus Dhiginina, Anna Niitembu Hako, and Sakaria M. Iipinge. "Roles of School Management Teams in Effective Curriculum Delivery During COVID-19 in Namibia." In Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership, 52–67. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7168-2.ch004.

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This qualitative study examined the roles of the school management teams in curriculum delivery during COVID-19 and beyond. The closure of the schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic caused serious disruptions to teaching and learning. Learners were expected to be engaged in learning processes via different platforms. The school management teams were given enormous responsibilities to ensure planning, implementing, and monitoring curriculum delivery during and post COVID-19. Twenty participants are purposefully selected from 10 schools ranging from primary to secondary. Focus group interviews and document analysis were used to collect data. The authors followed the thematic approach in analyzing data. The study revealed that the amount of teaching is not significant as only the quality of learning matters. It proved that planning is the best approach to academic outcomes. The authors hope the study would provide insight into lived experiences of school management teams in curriculum planning, implementation, and monitoring of curriculum delivery amidst COVID-19 and beyond.
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Shaimemanya, Cornelia Ndahambelela Shimwooshili, and Sadrag Panduleni Shihomeka. "Green School Leadership." In Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership, 328–41. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5858-3.ch016.

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The purpose of the chapter was to examine the leadership practices of school principals whose agenda is to green the schools in an effort to achieve sustainability in Namibia and build environmental knowledge of the Namibian secondary school learners. The study was qualitative and used a purposive sampling of eight teachers and environmental clubs at three selected schools in the Khomas education region. The results revealed that these teachers hold a non-remunerative position of coordinating for the Environmental Club as an extra-mural responsibility and they were doing it because of their natural love for the environment and interest in educating the young and future generations about sustainability/sustainable living. The chapter recommends that the school management should provide maximum support to the practicing and responsible green school project coordinators at various schools to motivate and guide them when necessary.
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Lamberti, Marjorie. "The Politics of School Reform and the Kulturkampf." In State, Society, and the Elementary School in Imperial Germany. Oxford University Press, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195056112.003.0007.

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Bismarck’s struggle against political Catholicism and dissatisfaction with the supervision of the schools in the Polish-speaking areas of Prussia propelled the school administration on to a new course after 1870. His choice of Adalbert Falk brought to the head of the Ministry of Education on January 22, 1872 a judicial official who was philosophically close to the National Liberal party. During his seven years in office, Falk broke with the practices followed by his predecessors and introduced measures to dissolve the traditional bonds between the church and the school. The objectives of the school reforms were to professionalize school supervision by the appointment of full-time school inspectors in place of the clergy, to weaken the church’s influence in the school system by curtailing its right to direct the instruction of religion, and to merge Catholic and Protestant public schools into interconfessional schools, providing an education that would dissolve religious particularism and cultivate German national consciousness and patriotic feeling. These innovations thrust school politics into the foreground of the Kulturkampf in Prussia. School affairs became a matter of high politics for Bismarck when groups whom he regarded as enemies of the German Empire coalesced into a Catholic political party in 1870. Opposition in the Catholic Rhineland to Prussia’s aggressive war against Austria in 1866 led him to question the political loyalty of the Catholics, and the political behavior of the Catholics after the founding of the North German Confederation confirmed his suspicion. While the Polish faction in the Reichstag of 1867 protested the absorption of Polish Prussia into a German confederation, other Catholic deputies took up the defense of federalism and criticized those articles in Bismarck’s draft of the constitution that created too strong a central government. In the final vote the Catholics formed part of the minority that rejected the constitution. This act reinforced his image of political Catholicism as an intransigent and unpatriotic opposition. The organization of the Center party was a defensive response to the vulnerable position of the Catholic minority in the new empire, which had a political climate of liberal anticlericalism and Protestant nationalist euphoria that seemed to threaten the rights and interests of the Catholic church.
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Lamberti, Marjorie. "The School System before 1870." In State, Society, and the Elementary School in Imperial Germany. Oxford University Press, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195056112.003.0006.

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Through most of the nineteenth century the public elementary school in Prussia was de jure an institution of the state but de facto an institution of the church through the clergy’s virtual monopoly of school inspection offices and the precedence given to confessional religious instruction in the curriculum. So extensive was church influence in the public school system that Catholic Bishop Wilhelm von Ketteler of Mainz was moved to praise the Protestant monarchy in the north. In 1867 he wrote that a peaceful solution of the school question, which had kindled a bitter conflict between the state and the Catholic church in Baden, was already present in Prussia, in the practices of the school administration and in the constitution of 1850. The bishop’s depiction of the Prussian school administration as a model for the other German states to emulate is a poignant reminder of a point that has not always been fully appreciated in modern historical scholarship. The Volksschule in Prussia was not an affair of the state alone. The traditional partnership of the church and the state in the supervision of the schools was put on a secure and enduring foundation when the constitution recognized the church, the local community, and the state as social entities with legitimate interests and formal rights in the public schools. The General Civil Code of 1794 defined the Volksschule as an institution of the state but did not consistently carry out this principle. While the civil code proclaimed that the schools were under the supervision of the state authorities, it also recognized the church’s historical ties to the schools and entrusted school supervision to the superintendents of the church dioceses and the parish clergy. The local pastors or priests inspected the schools, watched the work and personal conduct of the schoolmasters, and reported any deficiency or disorder to the civil and church authorities. Adding to the ambiguity of the school’s institutional nature was the continuation of the Kilsterschule in which the teacher served also as the church organist and sexton. In many villages the school remained an extension of the parish church.
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Conference papers on the topic "Catholic schools – Namibia – Administration"

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Pieter, Jan, and Putu Victoria M. Risamasu. "The Partnership of Family, Schools and Community (Three Education Centers) as a Means of Forming Catholic Religious Characters." In 2nd Yogyakarta International Conference on Educational Management/Administration and Pedagogy (YICEMAP 2019). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201221.025.

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Waruwu, Marinus. "The Implementation of Servant Leadership in Improving Teachers’ Performance at Elementary School (Study Case at Catholic Elementary Schools in Bandung)." In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Research of Educational Administration and Management (ICREAM 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icream-18.2019.53.

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