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- Title
Exploring the Contours of Context and Leadership Effectiveness in Vietnam.
- Authors
HALLINGER, PHILIP; TRUONG DINH THANG
- Abstract
Global discourse in educational leadership and management has in recent years privileged an 'instructional leadership' perspective on understanding principal effectiveness. While there is a growing body of evidence concerning the impact of instructional leadership, we wonder whether the convergence of global discourse around an overly narrow perspective threatens to create an unhealthy role imbalance in the principalship. This article draws on an analysis of the Vietnamese literature on principal leadership to examine how expectations of effective principal leadership are shaped by the environment of schools. Substantive analysis of the literature suggested that the political and cultural leadership roles of the principal continue to outweigh the importance assigned to instructional leadership. The particular balance assigned to these roles is attributed to political and cultural forces that shape the context of education in Vietnam. The article begins to explicate how perceptions of effective school leadership are shaped in a multi-dimensional context comprised of political, socio-cultural and organisational forces. Implications of the analysis include a recommendation to avoid a unitary conceptualisation of principal effectiveness that fails to account for differences in context.
- Subjects
VIETNAM; EDUCATIONAL leadership; SCHOOL principals; EDUCATION; SCHOOL supervision; SCHOOL administration; EDUCATIONAL quality
- Publication
Leading & Managing, 2014, Vol 20, Issue 2, p43
- ISSN
1329-4539
- Publication type
Article