Leading Schools through the COVID-19 Crisis in a South-East Asian Country

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Title: Leading Schools through the COVID-19 Crisis in a South-East Asian Country
Language: English
Authors: Donnie Adams (ORCID 0000-0001-7777-5187), Kenny S. L. Cheah (ORCID 0000-0001-9881-582X), Lei Mee Thien, Noni Nadiana Md Yusoff
Source: Management in Education. 2024 38(2):72-78.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 7
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Principals, Secondary Schools, Beginning Principals, Leadership Styles, Leadership Effectiveness, Administrator Behavior, Public Schools, Barriers, Instructional Leadership
Geographic Terms: Malaysia
DOI: 10.1177/08920206211037738
ISSN: 0892-0206
1741-9883
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic is a health crisis and today's school principals are faced with more challenging circumstances than in any other time in our known history. The purpose of this paper is to explore school principals' management practices, their leadership styles, and the challenges they encounter in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. A research instrument of open-ended questions was administered to 32 school principals from government-funded secondary schools, to establish how school principals are dealing with the current situation and the challenges that arise from it. Findings rendered a contextualisation of school management practices. School leaders specified instructional and distributed leadership that were vital in this time of crisis and disclosed the challenges and uncertainties of their school communities. Hence, this paper contributes to the scarce evidence based on school leadership practices during a pandemic.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2024
Accession Number: EJ1419088
Database: ERIC
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