Belmas Annual International Conference 2010
Venue: Wokefield Park, Reading
Date: Friday 9th July 2010 - Sunday 11th July 2010
Conference Papers
The 2010 BELMAS Annual Conference focused on ‘New organisations, new leadership?'
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FRIDAY 9th July 2010
Session 1
1.1
Parent's Choice and the Erosion of Public Interest: Legal and Curricular Developments in Alberta, Canada
Frank Peters
EMAL Best New Paper 2009
Appointing Senior Managers in Education: Homosiciability, local logics and authenticity in the selection process
Bernie Grummell, (Dympna Devine and Kathleen Lynch)
1.2
New organisations? Alternative leadership. Assessing the role of union learning representatives as leaders of professional learning
Howard Stevenson
Perceptions of students' union leadership development.
Paul Lloyd
1.3
The underpinning values of educational leaders: an international survey.
Mike Bottery
What's new? Bourdieu's méconnaissance as an explanation for why New Organizations and New Leaders in education are unlikely to be created or change things
Cheryl L. Bolton and Fenwick W. English
1.4
New Data Systems to Support Instruction
William T. Hartman
Raising Standards through Improved Monitoring and Evaluation of English as an Additional Language (EAL) Provision: Challenges for New Organisation and New Leadership
Malini Mistry and Krishan Sood
1.5
Developing teachers through performance management: applying theory to assess capacity
Linda Evans
Toll Bridge: Explorations of Identity, Liminality, and (Over Estimating?) Agency
Patricia A.L. Ehrensal
1.6
Educational Leadership in a Transitional Society: The Transformation of the UAE and Its Educational Sector - Part 1 of 2
Introduction: Towards a Theory of Transitional Educational Administration and Leadership in Changing Societies
Eugenie A. Samier
Emiratisation of Educational Leadership towards Cultural and Social Responsibility in the United Arab Emirates
Tarifa Ajaif Al Zaabi
Female Emirati Students as Global Leaders: A Re-Formation of National/Cultural Identity for the Modern World
Rabaa Alsumaiti, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
‘Developing Educational Leadership for the Technical and Vocational Education Field in the United Arab Emirates'
Faisal Albakeri, British University in Dubai, UAE
Session 2
2.1
School-based integrated health centres in Cornwall: New organisation, new leadership and international perspectives - Part 1 of 2
Reynold Macpherson, Barbara Vann, David Barton, Guy Chappell, Nigel Owen and Twyla Salm
2.2
Leading Schools for School Communities
Saeeda Shah
A leadership Model for Diversity
Victoria Showunmi
2.3
Tri-level Organizational Change: Redefining Leadership
Ken Brien and Ray Williams
Defining Academic Educational Administration: An Examination of Undergraduate and Graduate Programmes in Eleven Countries
David Burgess and Paul Newton
Educational Quality Perspectives in Two Canadian Provinces
Paul Newton and Frank Peters
2.4
A journey of exploring Leadership for Learning within two contrasting education systems: a comparative study between Greek and English high performing schools.
Maria Kaparou
Leadership for Learning Organisations and Communities of Practice: How does your institution learn from itself?
Christopher Mangham
2.5
New organisations, old practices: the leadership masquerade
Callie Grant
Servant Leadership and the Catholic High School Principal
Keith Walker
2.6
The pen-portrait approach and its use as a leadership support mechanism.
Mike Bottery
Gendered mentoring for school leadership: Implications for new female leaders in new organisations
Pontso Moorosi
Session 3
3.1
Publishing Clinic: EMAL and MiE
From small beginnings to publishing in international journals: publication tips
Tony Bush and Linda Hammersley-Fletcher with Caroline Lock
3.2
Changing organisational structures: will we never learn?
Ron Glatter
3.3
Bridging the University and District: new organizational partnerships to make schools and colleges better places for young people to grow up in.
Alison Taysum, Phil Woods and Thaddeus Damus
3.4
Pioneers of Innovation; an experiment in the field of primary education
Iselien Nabben and Kimon Moerbeek
3.5
The extended schools agenda and the place of complementary schools: new possibilities for leadership and organizations?
Anthony Thorpe
3.6
Educational Leadership in a Transitional Society: The Transformation of the UAE and Its Educational Sector - Part 1 of 2
Introduction: Towards a Theory of Transitional Educational Administration and Leadership in Changing Societies
Eugenie A. Samier
Emiratisation of Educational Leadership towards Cultural and Social Responsibility in the United Arab Emirates
Tarifa Ajaif Al Zaabi
Female Emirati Students as Global Leaders: A Re-Formation of National/Cultural Identity for the Modern World
Rabaa Alsumaiti, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
‘Developing Educational Leadership for the Technical and Vocational Education Field in the United Arab Emirates'
Faisal Albakeri, British University in Dubai, UAE
SATURDAY 10th July 2010
Session 4
4.1
School-based integrated health centres in Cornwall: New organisation, new leadership and international perspectives - Part 2 of 2
Reynold Macpherson, Barbara Vann, David Barton, Guy Chappell, Nigel Owen and Twyla Salm
4.2
Towards a system-wide reform: the Malta experience
Frank Fabri
The essence of character in leading our organisations forward
Christopher Bezzina
The nature of inter-school networking in the Maltese Islands - A Case Study
Mario Cutajar
4.3
Reluctance factors for the Principalship in Canada and Ireland
Ken Brien
The School Principal's Role in Large-Scale Assessment
Paul Newton and William Gowans
Perspectives of School Administrators on their Roles
Ann Sherman
4.4
New organisations, new emotions: an investigation of one headteacher's experience of leading two schools
Joanne Cliffe
Leading with Emotion: a new zeitgeist for leadership development in complex organisations. Or, more of the same. An exploration.
Marlene Morrison
"It's a Cruel Cruel World...So, Lead It Like You Mean It! Teacher Job Satisfaction in Cypriot Schools and the Impact of Headteachers' Leadership Behaviours"
Lambri Trisokka
4.5
Consultants, head teachers and primary school literacy: how are new assemblages changing leadership practices in one policy arena?
Colin Mills
Leadership and Organisational Learning: The Dynamics of Authority in School-to-School Support
David H. Eddy Spicer
The Heart of Leadership: Does the Phase of Education Matter to High Quality Leadership?
Peter Johnston and Anne Raynor
4.6
The changing leadership landscape - what do we know about new models of leadership and governance in schools and how should we grow future leaders for these new organisations?
Maggie Farrar
Succession Planning In England: New Leaders and New Forms Of Leadership
Tony Bush
Delivering substantive and sustained change by working through a ‘local solutions' approach to national challenges: A case study of the National College Succession Planning Programme.
Fred Paterson
Session 5
5.1
Building and Sustaining Success in the Principalship: the importance of trust
Christopher Day
Challenges of Elementary School Administrators in Yucatan, Mexico
Charles Slater
Culturally Responsive Leadership Practices in Norway, the USA, and Cyprus: A Reanalysis of Case Studies from the International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP)
Lauri Johnson
5.2
Symposium: The Leadership and Management of Inter-professional Collaborative Education and Practice
Linet Arthur, Alan Floyd, and Marlene Morrison
5.3
Leading collaboratively in school:- a blended model of leadership
Andrew Coleman
Hallucinogen, distraction or reality? Distributed leadership and the social practices of school organisation in England
Dave Hall and Helen Gunter
New Localism vs. Centralism: The New DEEL
Valerie A. Storey
5.4
Re-designing Singapore's world class schools for the 21st Century: New curricula, new pedagogies and new forms of leadership.
Clive Dimmock, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Thinking and Acting both Locally and Globally: Strategic Leadership for a New Way of Thinking
Tony Townsend, University Of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
5.5
Enhancing Institutional Leadership through Principal's Information Literacy
Anne I. Fabiyi and Simeon A. Oladipo
Effective school governance and community ownership in rural schools: The role of ‘capital' and ‘networks'
Carol Thomson
5.6
Leading learning communities- ITT/CPD partnership provision with a difference
Nicky Hepworth and Linda Hammersley-Fletcher
‘Outstanding, Good, Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory? Analysing trainee teachers' perceptions of classroom observation'.
Lorna Page
Enhancing Mentors' Effectiveness: A Promising Model
Keith Walker
SUNDAY 11th July 2010
Session 6
6.1
Researching management and markets: identifying issues for practitioner researchers.
Claire Indans
College Leadership: A case of Nigerian Tertiary Institutions
Grace O. Oshun
6.2
The leadership challenges facing the Maltese educational system in a context of reform.
Christopher Bezzina and Mario Cutajar
School governing in England: The influence of school type, performance and socio-economic disadvantage
Chris James
6.3
Entrepreneurialism for Canadian Principals Today and Tomorrow
Shelleyann Scott
Radical Entrepreneurialism: A critical analysis of entrepreneurial leadership and alternative possibilities in the drive to organisational change in education
Philip A. Woods
Entrepreneurialism and Educational Leaders in Mexico
Charles Slater
6.4
How can I enthuse colleagues to tread new paths? An interactive and participative Socratic Dialogue (Part 1)
Dorothy Moir and Rene Saran
Session 7
7.1
Restructuring, Reform and Student Achievement in Canada
Frank Peters and Paul Newton
The outcomes of an international review of school governing
Chris James
7.2
Changing University: the Role of Anticipatory Leadership
Elena Tropinova
What are the implications of decentralisation for inspector roles in post-communist Romania?
Ana-Cristina Popescu
7.3
Building stronger leadership through multi-agency working
Natalia Yakavets
Research utilisation to improve leadership and management: transforming schools and developing leaders
Jane Hemsley-Brown
7.4
The Cultural Context of Management Styles in Arab Schools in Israel: ‘Al Musāyara'
Omar Mizel
Headship and shared business management expertise in the small primary school
Charlotte Woods, Paul Armstrong and Diana Pearson
7.5
Extended Services cluster coordinators: How is their role perceived?
Kay Fuller
Socratic Dialogue: a critical thinking approach to meeting challenges in education leadership (Part 2)
Rene Saran and Dorothy Moir
