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The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between the school context, the leadership of the school principal, and a set of process variables related to teachers and the educational climate, which have been shown to mediate the effects of the principal’s leadership on schools and students. The authors examined the following research questions: does the school context influence the principal’s leadership? When the influences of the school context are controlled for, does the principal’s leadership influence the process variables related to teachers and educational climate?
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In those schools which have the highest leadership scores, the authors also find a greater degree of job satisfaction among the teachers, higher levels of self-efficacy of teachers, and a better educational climate, which is more respectful of the basic rules of coexistence existing within the school. An interesting additional element is that the positive relationship between the exercise of leadership and the process variables related to academic success is still present, even if the effects of the school context are controlled for.
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Angelo Paletta is Professor of Management Control Systems at Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Deputy Rector position, responsible for the Finance and Social Responsibility. He was appointed by Pope Francis as a member of the Vatican Catholic Education Congregation. His main research interests include: educational management and leadership; public governance and accountability; crisis management and reorganization.
angelo paletta
Universita degli Studi di Bologna
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This page is a summary of: Leadership for learning, The International Journal of Educational Management, March 2017, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ijem-11-2015-0152.
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