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The role of the principal's leadership style in the implementation of ICT policy
Author(s) -
HadjithomaGarstka Christina
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2009.01014.x
Subject(s) - transformational leadership , leadership style , information and communications technology , principal (computer security) , context (archaeology) , style (visual arts) , scale (ratio) , psychology , transactional leadership , public relations , pedagogy , knowledge management , sociology , political science , social psychology , computer science , world wide web , paleontology , history , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , biology , operating system
This paper presents findings of a study in information communication technology (ICT) implementation, on the principal's leadership style in relation to other factors that influence implementation. The principal's leadership style is perceived—on the basis of the characteristics of the context where the study was conducted—as a personal quality, rather than a change/transformational leadership behaviour or related to the principals' positional authority. The study employed firstly a large‐scale survey based on which case studies of four schools were selected for further research. The findings have implications for practice, more specifically, for principals' training and for the support provided to schools for embedding ICT. The paper draws on an institutionalist implementation approach to describe the principals' role in theorising the concept of ICT in education.