Preparing Educational Administrators: An Australian Perspective

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Assessment of Community and Social Projects on Social Infrastructural Development of Kwali Area Council Federal Capital Territory

“…The domain has emerged mainly due to the fact that public infrastructure is the most apparent form of construction that interests society at large (Duffield, 2016). Infrastructure is defined as the productive capital structures that underpin the economy and society and contribute over time to the achievement of their economic and social goals (Johnson et al, 2015). In this regard, economic and social infrastructure had consequently emerged.…”

Leaders and Leadership in Education

“…• problem-based learning (Crowther and Limerick, 1998); • experiential learning through fieldwork, simulations and the stories and experiences of practitioners (Johnson, N., 1993;Danzig, 1997;; • supporting partnership arrangements in the development of leadership centres (Harvey et al, 1999); • evidencing through portfolio approaches to assessment (Wildy and Wallace, 1998). Maxcy (1998) reports on how the move away from the uncritical adoption and transference of business models into education has enabled more socially critical work to be developed.…”

Education Reforms and Professional Development of Principals: Implications for Universities

“…For example, the co‐operative programme of one New South Wales region and the local higher education institution has blurred the distinction between academic learning and professional training to the extent of offering half of a masters degree at university and half through a proliferation of in‐service courses designed by teachers and conducted by the local region of the government education system[42]. Other institutions have been more reticent to divest themselves of so much control over their higher degree courses; although most in New South Wales accredit up to two units of approved in‐service education programmes conducted by the state Department of School Education[43].…”