Researchers at NIE co-publish in the Journal of Educational Administration

Dr Jeanne Ho, Senior Teaching Fellow at the Office of Education Research (OER), Dr Trivina Kang, Assoc Dean (Professional and Leadership Development) at the Office of Graduate Studies and Professional Learning, and Senior Lecturer at NIE’s Policy, Curriculum and Leadership Academic Group, and Dr Imran Sha’ari, OER Research Scientist, have had their paper published in the Journal of Educational Administration.

The paper, titled “Leading from the middle: Vice-principals in Singapore as boundary spanners” arose from their project “Vice-principals in Singapore: Key Leadership Roles, Enablers and Constraints” where they examined and contrasted the perceptions of the role of a vice-principal against those of principals. The paper posits that vice-principals lead from the middle to connect, translate, and broker between organisational levels, such as the ministry and school leadership and middle management.

The DOI is JEA-05-2020-0123.