Leadership practices of high performing principals in selected Malaysian secondary schools: applying normative leadership modelsTools Norwawi, Shaharizal (2018) Leadership practices of high performing principals in selected Malaysian secondary schools: applying normative leadership models. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
AbstractGlobal research suggests that successful school principals are those who apply a judicious mix of instructional, distributed and transformational models of leadership. These approaches are explicitly advocated in the Malaysia Education Blueprint (MEB), the government’s main education reform document that was launched in 2013. The MEB sets out an ambitious plan for all schools to have high performing principals, and high performance is associated with these three models rather than the administrative leadership which is more common in Malaysian schools. The MEB suggests that the aspiration of placing high performing leaders in all schools can be achieved by improving and refining the selection process for new principals, and by requiring them to acquire the National Professional Qualification for Educational Leaders (NPQEL). The MEB also places a strong emphasis on instructional leadership as one of the more effective leadership approaches, which current and future principals should adopt.
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