Who Decides? Power, Disability, and Educational Leadership

Research-oriented Roundtable 

English-speaking 

Thursday, September 30, 2021 

Timeslot 16.30-17.30 CEST 

Chairs: Dr. Catherine O’Brien, Gallaudet University; Dr. William Black, University of South Florida; and Dr. Arnold B. Danzig, San José State University, USA 

  • Dr. Joshua Bornstein and Dr. Holly Manaseri: Ability and Belonging: Contested Ontology and Epistemology that Shape School Practice  
  • Dr. Michelle L. Damiani, Rowan University: Who Decides? Teachers with Disabilities and the Role of School Administrators  
  • Tya Collins, Department of Administration and Foundations in Education, Université de Montréal; Corina Borri-Anadon and Marie-Odile Magnan, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada: Shedding Light on Disability and Race in a North American Linguistic Minority Context: A DisCrit Analysis of Special Education in Quebec  
  • Dr. Cynthia Paes de Carvalho Pontifícia, Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro; Flávia Pedrosa de Camargo, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Mato Grosso do Sul, IFMS – Campus Corumbá; Mônica de Carvalho Magalhães Kassar, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, UFMS – Campus do Pantanal, Brazil: Leadership for Inclusive Education in Brazil: Potential Contributions of Studies to the Disability Training of School Leaders  

Professionalization of School Leaders, Leadership Learning

Research-oriented Roundtable 

English-speaking 

Thursday, September 30, 2021 

Timeslot 16.30-17.30 CEST 

Chair: 

  • Prof. Dr. Leif Moos, Aarhus University Copenhagen, Danmark: Professionalization of School Leaders 
  • Mihaela Zavašnik und Tatjana Ažman, National School for Leadership in Education Ljubljana, Slovenia:Coaching newly appointed Headteachers during Covid-19 Epidemic 
  • Mireia Tintoré, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya Barcelona, Spain: Leadership Programme for a Whole Child Development in Disadvantaged Contexts. A summary 
  • Niclas Rönnström, Stockholm University, Sweden: School leadership in a moment of transformative change: Recognizing dynamic capability and the meta-practices of change 
  • Cathryn Magno, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland: Global, intercultural learning (and teaching) in the virtual Comparative Educational Leadership Lab 
  • Prof. Dr. Hassanreza Zeinabadi, Kharazmi University Tehran, Iran: Assessing principals as isolation-breakers: Introducing the knowledge-sharing leadership scale (KSLS) 

Role and Function of Education Leadership

Research-oriented Roundtable 

English-speaking 

Thursday, September 30, 2021 

Timeslot 16.30-17.30 CEST 

Chair: 

  • Prof. Dr. David Gurr, The University of Melbourne, Australia: Research on Middle Leaders in Schools 
  • Zvisinei Moyo, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa: Struggling to make a difference against the odds: a synthesis of qualitative research on women leading schools in Zimbabwe 
  • Matías Sembler , Universidad Diego Portales Santiago de Chile, Chile: Leading high schools in a crisis context: leadership teams during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile 
  • Osman Buleshkaj, University of Prishtina, Kosovo: Leading curriculum: an opportunity for new way of leading in Kosovo schools 
  • Scott Eacott, UNSW Sydney, Australia: A relational inquiry on the provision of schooling: small schools in New South Wales, Australia 

Management of Crisis

Research-oriented Roundtable 

English-speaking 

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 

First Timeslot 15.30-16.30 CEST  

Chair: N.N. 

  • Dr. Michelle Striepe and Dr. Christine Cunningham, Edith Cowan University Perth, Australia: When crisis becomes crises: Turbulent times for educational leaders 
  • Dr. Priscila Monge, TEC de Monterrey Hermosillo, Mexico: Distributed leadership in a changing educational context 
  • Dr. Antonios Kafa, Frederick University Nicosia, Cyprus: School leaders’ support structure during the COVID-19 crisis: The case of the centralized educational system in Cyprus 
  • Prof. Dr. Rodriguez Lorena, RIGE, Hermosillo, Mexico: Executive Leadership in Crisis Processes 

COVID-19 Educational Research: Crisis in Society and Impact on Education around the World

Research-oriented Roundtable 

English-speaking 

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 

Second Timeslot 16.45-17.45 CEST 

Chair: Prof. Dr. Christoph Helm, University of Linz, Austria 

  • Prof. Dr. Britta Klopsch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany and Prof. Dr. Jo Fletcher, University of Canterbury, New Zealand: Making schools post-pandemic – what we can learn from the challenges in Germany and New Zealand 
  • Norma Pesqueira, Carmen Celina Torres Arcadia and Gabriela Mora, Comisión Nacional para la Mejora Continua de la Educación en México Hermosillo, México: Teacher leadership in times of crisis 
  • Alexandra Postlbauer and Prof. Dr. Christoph Helm, University of Linz, Austria: The Impact of the Corona Pandemic on Students’ Extracurricular Activities. Latent Change Score Covariate Models on the Effect  
  • Prof. Dr. Christoph Helm, University of Linz, Austria, and Prof. Dr. Stephan Huber, University of Teacher Education Zug, Switzerland: Predictors of Central Student Learning Outcomes in Times of COVID-19: Students’, Parents’, and Teachers’ Perspectives During School Closure in 2020. A Multiple Informant Relative Weight Analysis 
  • Khuloud Al Hammadi, United Arab Emirates University: Influence of Coping with the Organizational Change on Work-related Uncertainty and Work Engagement: Role of organizational Support (PhD) 
  • Phoebe Gohs, Michigan State University East Lansing, USA: An Analysis of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on K-12 School Enrollment in the United States: How did differences in educational programming impact access to education in the 2020-2021 school year? (PhD) 

Health and Resilience in Education

Research-oriented Roundtable 

English-speaking 

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 

Second Timeslot 16.45-17.45 CEST 

Chair: N.N. 

  • Dr. Pia Skott, Stockholm University, Sweden: Leadership, health promotion and assesment pracitices 
  • Dr. Sekitla Makhasane, University of the Free State Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa: Teachers views about the intricacies of learner-on-teacher violence and the implications for school leadership 
  • Mailis Elomaa, University of Jyväskylä, Finland: Elementary school principals‘ work-related ecological system and the nature of interaction with different elements (PhD) 

Educational Policy and Governance

Research-oriented Roundtable 

English-speaking 

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 

First Timeslot 15.30-16.30 CEST  

Chair:  

  • Dr. Jeffrey B. Hall, University of Oslo, Norway: School principals and school superintendents as institutional entrepreneurs: Handling organizational tensions in the planning and enactment of the renewed state curriculum 
  • Sigríður Margrét Sigurðardóttir, University of Akureyri, Iceland: Characteristics of educational leadership practices at the municipal level in Iceland 
  • Dr. Arleta Suwalska, Arleta Suwalska Warsaw, Poland: The roots of educational changes in the perspective of democracy challenges in England and Finland in the XXth century. 
  • Dr. Venesser Fernandes, Monash University Clayton, Australia: Understanding, Leading and Managing Complexities in Data-Informed Decision Making Approaches at System and School Level 
  • Ilze Breedt, University of Pretoria, South Africa: Stakeholder views of educational governance after a change in ownership of independent schools (PhD) 

Educational Change and the Future of Education (Focus System)

Research-oriented Roundtable 

English-speaking 

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 

First Timeslot 15.30-16.30 CEST  

Chair: Nelly Guet, Alert Education, St. Martin de Castillon, France 

  • Nelly Guet, Alert Education, St. Martin de Castillon, France: How to transform a hierarchical education system into a democratic system with autonomous schools 
  • Dr. Denis Francesconi, University of Vienna, Austria: The Quality of Life Movement. Indications for the Education Systems 
  • Prof. Dr. Ulrich Müller, Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Germany: Implementing ESD in Schools. Perspectives of Principals in Germany, Macau and the USA 

Educational Networks and Cooperation

Research-oriented Roundtable 

English-speaking 

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 

Second Timeslot 16.45-17.45 CEST 

Chair: Dr. Ulrich Iberer, Ludwigsburg University of Education, Germany 

  • Dr. Ulrich Iberer, Ludwigsburg University of Education, Germany: Implications for teaching and learning in intercultural societies: parents‘ expectations of schools in Taiwan. 
  • Franka Luise Deister, Free University of Bolzano, Italy: Pupils, Musicians and Teachers as Kulturkomplizen (Cultural Accomplices) in the Classroom: Process and first results of a Design-Based Research Study on Transprofessional Cooperation in Music Education in Primary Schools in South Tyrol/Italy (PhD) 
  • Willa Rose Fynn, California State University Long Beach, USA: Playing to Learn and Learning to Play in Urban Early Childhood Education (PhD) 

Teacher Professionalisation and Support of School Leaders (PhD Roundtable)

Research-oriented Roundtable 

English-speaking 

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 

First Timeslot 15.30-16.30 CEST 

Chair: N.N. 

  • Fatema Habeeb Al Attar, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates and Dr. Ibrahim Duyar, Arkansas State University, USA: Influence of Organizational Constraints on Teachers Affective Commitment to Change: Moderating Role of Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) in the UAE Public Schools 
  • Dr. Ayhan Ozturk, Ministry of Education-Turkey Ankara, Turkey: Analyzing Influence of Authentic Leadership, Organizational Identification, and Perceived organizational Support on Teachers – Job-engagement and Commitment: A cross-National Study (PhD) 
  • Christian Lazcano, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile: School leadership and teacher turnover: Instructional keys to prevent it (PhD) 
  • Dr. Ying Hu, East China Normal University Shanghai, China and Dr. Duyar Ibrahim, Arkansas State University, USA: Paradigm Change in Learning through School Museums: A Closer Look at Influence of Principals toward Change, and Collaborative Learning Culture (PhD)