Abstract: The main purpose of this study is to explore the leadership style, distributed leaderships in particular, used by principals of high schools in Taiwan. Questionnaires were given to principals and teachers from 70 public senior high and vocational school in Taiwan to investigate the relationship between the distributed leadership of the principals and teacher morale. Results revealed that principals and teachers held different perspectives on the extent of distributed leadership. The two types of schools also perceived the extent of implementing the two elements of distributed leadership differently. Teachers of different positions manifested different teacher morale. There were significant differences in teacher morale between different school types. A positive correlation was observed between the extent of principals implementing distributed leadership and teacher morale. The results have deeply educational implication for school leaders and managers

• Publication Date: 21-Dec-2014
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-036-1-64
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Abstract: Categorization is fundamental to human existence (Saljo and Hjorne, 2009). Essential as it may be this form of thinking has negative consequences. Bullying has become a public concern in the United States and the United Kingdom due to large scale shootings and suicides. King-Shaw (2008) maintains that adolescent who do not have the needed support from teachers, parents or friends may experience long term psychological problems or resort to suicide. A Change Laboratory (Virkkunen and Newnham, 2013) was held with 35 immigrant school going adolescents. The results revealed that there is indeed a process of internalization of the social world but that it is personally transformed in order to arrive at a negative or positive form of sense making. The adolescents reworked the negative ways of perceiving their socio-cultural spaces and selves through questioning socio-cultural abstract forms of thinking.

• Publication Date: 21-Dec-2014
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-036-1-65
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