Framing research on school principals’ identities

Principals’ emotional identity – the Swedish case

“…From a broader perspective, Crawford (2007) emphasised that emotions are intrinsic to the practice of principals, and therefore all organising actions of principals are inseparable from, and influenced by, emotions. That declared, the results of the article show that the three dimensions in the study by Crow, Day, and Møller (2017) contribute to a broader understanding of principals' identity and how identity influences principal's work. They also encouraged further research within the field, and we believe that the current article adds an important piece of research to this end.…”

“…Age . Length of time as principal Some questions in the questionnaire were constructed in accordance with the different dimensions of identity, elaborated on by Crow, Day, and Møller (2017). The professional dimension, for instance, included questions on the influence of steering documents and the Swedish Agency for Education.…”

“…Beatty 2000;Blackmore 2004;Crow and Scribner 2014;Møller 2005;Murakami et al 2016;Ritacco and Boliviar 2019;Tubin 2017). One overall conclusion revealed in the current body of research emphasised by Crow, Day, and Møller (2017) is that the construction of principals' identity is situated in time, space, and place. Their comprehensive work also offers a synthesis of existing works, providing a framework for further research on principals' identity construction and development.…”

“…To enable detailed analyses of Swedish principals' emotional identity, a former article took a point of departure from the work of Crow, Day, and Møller (2017) by creating an analysis instrument, structured with the three dimensions of their work (Nordholm et al forthcoming). The current article employs this analysis instrument to explore Swedish principals' emotional identity as well as what similarities and variances exist between different groups of principals.…”

Generation X leaders from London, New York and Toronto

“…Echoing scholarly calls to recognise the importance of context on leaders' construction and negotiation of identity (Crow et al, 2017), this paper illuminates how a small cohort of GenX leaders experience and describe the influence of race/ethnicity within their own city-based leadership practice. We review leadership-related research and theory exploring social identity theory, organisational fit and in-group prototypes.…”