IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/vrs/ecocul/v14y2017i2p12-21n2.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Professional Development of School Principals in the Pilot Program of ‘Pedagogical Flexibility’: The Israeli Case

Author

Listed:
  • Nets Mali

    (Ministry of Education of Israel, North District, Department of Pedagogical Development)

Abstract

The past decade constitutes a significant turning point in the orientation of policy makers in the Israeli educational system. This period is characterized by comprehensive structural and pedagogical reforms intended for the promotion of the system’s achievements. ‘Pedagogical Flexibility’, a reform in the professional development of teaching staff implemented in 2015, constitutes a significant breakthrough in the perception of development and learning in Israel. The school principals play a main role in leading the reform and in the development of a new organizational culture in the staff as well. This led to the creation of focused learning frameworks for school principals who sought to improve their knowledge and skill in the leadership of the reform. The article presents the main points of the first pilot program implemented in the North District for the training of 20 school principals in the reform and the main findings from the evaluation of the program, data from a questionnaire, and a focus group. In addition, the article proposes a critical look at the program effectiveness and indicates further focuses for future learning. The article presents a view of the role of the school principal in the leadership of the professional development in Israel and reviews theoretical aspects that arise from the research regarding this issue.

Suggested Citation

  • Nets Mali, 2017. "Professional Development of School Principals in the Pilot Program of ‘Pedagogical Flexibility’: The Israeli Case," Economics and Culture, Sciendo, vol. 14(2), pages 12-21, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:ecocul:v:14:y:2017:i:2:p:12-21:n:2
    DOI: 10.1515/jec-2017-0014
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/jec-2017-0014
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1515/jec-2017-0014?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Professional development of school principals; professional development of teachers; pedagogical leadership;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:vrs:ecocul:v:14:y:2017:i:2:p:12-21:n:2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Peter Golla (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.sciendo.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.