Petros Pashiardis

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• Ph.D.
• Professor Emeritus at Open University of Cyprus

The link between entrepreneurship and school leadership is increasingly recognized as essential for effective school improvement. Entrepreneurship involves creative and innovative value creation, while school leadership focuses on influencing teachers and stakeholders to establish an effective learning environment benefiting students, teachers, par...

Research shows the importance of leadership for quality development in settings of Early Childhood Education [ECE] (Anders and Oppermann 2024). This study investigated how headteachers of ECE settings in Germany pursue the goal of team development as a prerequisite for quality development and use external expertise for this purpose. Twenty-two head...

This chapter offers insights into educational leadership in relation to school principals, who play an important role as leaders in this new digital environment , during the global pandemic COVID-19. Based on the five leadership styles of the Pashiardis-Brauckmann Holistic Leadership Framework, as the theoretical background of this research study,...

The goal of this essay is to provide a critical review of papers dealing with scenario-based training in leadership mainly published after 2000, considering the extent to which situational frameworks are addressed or reflected in studies conducted during this period. In order to do this, we relied on some assumptions. For a first attempt concerning...

Purpose In an era of increased autonomy and accountability in education, school principals have been given the responsibility for many tasks that used to be centralized, such as hiring and managing personnel, ensuring that the curriculum is followed and that the development of the school is on the right path. In this study an exploration is attempt...

The main thrust of this paper is to explore factors from the business sector, which could inspire school leaders in terms of issue/problem formulation during their decision-making process. This conceptual paper examines diachronically and conceptually the issues of uncertainty, not only in terms of context and decision-making, but also having in mi...

Contextual conditions are analyzed in terms of school leadership actions’ dependencies on particular settings. Contextual factors may be effective at the system or at the school level. They may bear a crucial impact on the range of actions and, thus, the scope and priorities concerning school leadership activities, resulting in a diversification an...

For quite some time school leadership research focused solely on the impact of individual leadership styles on measurable student outcomes and not on the combinations, overlapping or complementary effects of leadership styles, which were needed in order to respond more effectively to a growing number of challenges. These challenges were increasingl...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore successful school principalship in Cyprus based on a ten-year research project, and in particular, by analysing leadership knowledge based on concrete actions of successful school principals derived from multiple case studies from the primary and secondary education sectors in Cyprus. Design/methodol...

This edited volume focuses on the cultural situatedness of educational leadership in countries in the Mediterranean basin (Malta, Israel, Spain, Algeria, Portugal, Italy, Cyprus) featuring chapters that explore the reception of the leadership concept and its enactment in education settings within one or more countries of the Mediterranean; consider...

Purpose This paper is derived from a thorough and systematic study, contributing to further understanding of the perception of authentic leadership in the context of Cyprus, by involving school principals' both espoused values and values in action coupled with their leadership styles. Design/methodology/approach Data were drawn from a combination...

This paper considers the response of the centralised education system in the context of Cyprus to the global pandemic COVID-19. Specifically, this paper describes the timeliness of the Cyprus' education system response during the challenges occurred by the pandemic. Also, it highlights the main challenges and initiatives faced by the Ministry of Ed...

The relationship between education and organizational financial efficiency can be described as tense and ambiguous. Therefore, issues of educational leadership inspired by models stemming from the business sector are currently hardly dealt with. Consequently, not much attention has been given to findings from the field of Business Financial Managem...

Το βιβλίο αποτελεί μια εισαγωγή στο διεπιστημονικό αυτό πεδίο, μέσα από κείμενα που έχουν συγγραφεί από επιστήμονες ειδικούς σε κάθε τομέα με σημαντική εμπειρία στην εκπαίδευση των εκπαιδευτικών σε ποικίλα πλαίσια. Η συγκρότηση αυτού του τόμου στηρίζεται στην αντίληψη ότι οι Επιστήμες της Εκπαίδευσης δεν είναι απλώς το άθροισμα των επιμέρους Επιστη...

The main purpose of this paper is to examine perspectives of successful and effective leadership as well as successful and effective schools in an effort to uncover the governance interventions which produce one or the other characterization. This examination is undertaken through the utilization of two guiding frameworks: the Pashiardis-Brauckmann...

Policy makers increasingly acknowledge that problems and challenges arising at the school level should be resolved on site. At the same time, the political expectation to delegate more responsibility to the individual school is rather heavily contrasted with the weak knowledge about how this new public management approach can be translated into suc...

The New Public Management Philosophy assumes that changes in responsibilities, available resources and knowledge can have a positive impact on the successful management of an organization, and this, in turn, can have a positive impact on schools and on teaching and learning processes. In this article, we explore the significance of school leaders'...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore a broader understanding of the role of Cypriot school principals’ personal identities, through a values system perspective, when exercising their leadership. Design/methodology/approach A multicase study methodology was followed with five school principals, representing five different leadership st...

Se parte de reconocer las clasificaciones y los tratados contemporáneos sobre la investigación en liderazgo educativo, centralmente los considerados como posmodernos, de los cuales se reconocen tres enfoques principales: sincrético, entitativo y relacional, tratado párrafos arriba. Se optó en este libro por simplificar la clasificación de los estud...

Recent studies have demonstrated the notable influence of school principals in a low performing school context. At the same time, it is useful to be reminded that the execution of intended effective school leadership actions encounters a number of contextually bound challenges which can be addressed in a more or less plausible way but not empirical...

The leadership inside and outside the schools envisioned in the context of output-oriented new public management reforms reacts upon the complexity and visibility of changes in a school environment. Thus, the main purpose of this conceptual article is to explore the undertheorized and underresearched relationship of the new public management mix of...

The objective of this piece of research was concentrated on school principals’ personal identities, through the values system perspective and the effect on their leadership practices, through the various leadership styles. More precisely, four central questions have guided our research: (1) Which are the most important personal values, as perceived...

Context has a considerable effect on the role and responsibilities of school principals. The aim of this paper is to provide a holistic perspective of the effects of school principals’ involvement in two low performing schools with different contexts. A qualitative research approach was employed, with individual and focus groups interviews under a...

Comparative studies on school leadership so far provide little information on the national contexts underlying school principals’ actions. Framing school leadership in this sense includes the underlying legal framework (setting) and the structure of its regulations, as well as state-organised support systems (e.g. qualification and training program...

In this chapter, the authors investigate the social skills that school principals ought to exhibit in order to be more effective in the complex environment that characterizes modern schools. Thus, the main aim of this chapter is to provide an in-depth exploration of those social skills that are needed in order for school principals to become more f...

In this chapter, the authors investigate the social skills that school principals ought to exhibit in order to be more effective in the complex environment that characterizes modern schools. Thus, the main aim of this chapter is to provide an in-depth exploration of those social skills that are needed in order for school principals to become more f...

With a few exceptions, evidence is yet scarce regarding the relationship between system variables and school leadership (re)actions. Hence, the systemic context presents a control variable and its sensemaking is always ascertained in different research contexts while it is not always possible to deliver exact, data-based information on effects conc...

Even though organisational characteristics can sometimes vary strongly even within one school type (i.e., primary, secondary), in contrast to system characteristics they seem to be perceived as changeable via school leader actions. Then, the question arises: could this be the result that school leaders are more influenced and affected by their imme...

Purpose – Although school autonomy has been a matter of great interest during the last decades and several relevant measures have been implemented toward this end, the relation between school autonomy and school effectiveness has not been examined thoroughly. The purpose of this paper is to explore this relation and to propose an effective school a...

Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to explore direct and indirect relationships between Leadership and Student Citizenship Outcomes in Cyprus middle schools. In the case of indirect effects the mediating role of School Academic Optimism and Instructional Quality was examined. Method: The specific study adopted a value-added quantitative de...

This book seeks to identify the characteristics, behaviours and practices of successful and effective school leaders through the adoption of a systemic view of the quality of school organizations. Similarities and differences between successful and effective school leaders and across various socioeconomic contexts are also addressed. The final purp...

Successful School Leadership identifies the characteristics, behaviours and practices of successful and effective school leaders through the adoption of a systemic view of the quality of school organizations. Edited by Petros Pashiardis and Olof Johansson, chapters explore the similarities and differences between successful and effective school lea...

Successful School Leadership identifies the characteristics, behaviours and practices of successful and effective school leaders through the adoption of a systemic view of the quality of school organizations. Edited by Petros Pashiardis and Olof Johansson, chapters explore the similarities and differences between successful and effective school lea...

Successful School Leadership identifies the characteristics, behaviours and practices of successful and effective school leaders through the adoption of a systemic view of the quality of school organizations. Edited by Petros Pashiardis and Olof Johansson, chapters explore the similarities and differences between successful and effective school lea...

In this paper a holistic perspective will be chosen in order to provide a more inclusive view of success and effectiveness, utilizing concrete examples of everyday practices in order to illustrate in a rather applied way how successful and effective school leaders operate in parts of Europe. In addition to providing a critical review of empirical a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether emotional intelligence and political skill (PS) of school principals influence the way they exercise leadership and the job satisfaction of their teachers. Design/methodology/approach – As regards to the methodology, quantitative research methods were used to conduct the research. Specifica...

This paper examines the school of the future, aiming to identify and aid the implementation of the most desired version of school autonomy in Cyprus. More specifically, the study initially forecasts the areas of financial decisions that the school of the future might autonomously manage, identifies the negative effects that may appear along the way...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a piece of research concerning the time management of Cypriot primary school principals. Time management refers to the interrelation of five independent variables: the various tasks principals perform, their frequency, the degree of accomplishment of those tasks, the use of time manag...

In 1959, after the London and Zurich Agreements, Cyprus became an independent state. The provisions of the agreements placed education under two parallel Communal Chambers, one for the Greek community and one for the Turkish community. The Greek community aimed at strengthening the cultural and emotional links with Greece. A new curriculum for the...

Στο σύντομο αυτό άρθρο εξετάζεται το σχολείο του μέλ- λοντος, αποσκοπώντας, αφενός, στην αναγνώριση της πλέον επιθυμητής μορφής Αυτόνομης Οικονομικής Δια- χείρισης για τα σχολεία της Κύπρου και, αφετέρου, στην υποβοήθηση της πραγματοποίησής της. Συγκεκριμένα, στο άρθρο παρουσιάζονται οι περιοχές εκείνες όπου το σχολείο του μέλλοντος ενδέχεται να λα...

Στόχος του παρόντος άρθρου είναι να παρουσιάσει τα αποτελέσματα πρόσφατης έρευνας για τη σχολική αυτονομία, ώστε να συμβάλει στις προσπάθειες εκσυγχρονισμού της κυπριακής εκπαίδευσης. Λαμβάνοντας υπόψη τον δημόσιο διάλογο που έχει αναπτυχθεί μετά τη δημοσιοποίηση των αρνητικών για την Κύπρο αποτελεσμάτων της έρευνας PISA 2012, στο άρθρο αναγνωρίζετ...

General description on research questions, objectives and theoretical framework Taking into consideration the fact that we live in a rapidly changing world, it is acknowledged that education must continuously evolve, adapt and be reformed, in order to meet the pressing and changing demands of its surrounding society (Gore, 2013; OECD, 2010). In th...

In this chapter, an examination of the origins of the LISA (Leadership Improvement for Student Achievement) and the Pro-LEAD (Uncovering the Complex Relation Between Principals’ Leadership Style and Epistemological Beliefs and its Implications for School Leadership Training) projects is presented. The basis of this review lies on the assumption tha...

In this chapter, an examination of the various theories developed on leadership, such as situational theories and transactional and transformational theories, is initially presented. Following, there is an examination of the main empirical findings about the effects of school leadership on student achievement. Finally, an in-depth presentation of t...

In this chapter, an exploration of a new cocktail leadership mix among school principals’ epistemological beliefs and leadership practices in Cyprus is undertaken. The main objective of this chapter is to explore the relationship between the leadership styles school principals adopt and their epistemological worldviews within the contextual and gov...

n this chapter, school climate variables are employed in order to explore school principals' influence on student achievement through the Pashiardis-Brauckmann Holistic Leadership Framework. The aim is to identify the mechanisms through which leadership influences student learning. For the purposes of the LISA project, a number of school climate va...

In this chapter, the authors investigate the social skills that school principals ought to exhibit in order to be more effective in the complex environment that characterizes modern schools. Thus, the main aim of this chapter is to provide an in-depth exploration of those social skills that are needed in order for school principals to become more f...

In this chapter, a thorough description of the methodological approach for both the LISA and Pro-LEAD projects is offered. First, the rationale as to why a mixed-methods approach was utilized is presented for both projects. Then, a step-by-step description of how the projects were implemented is given, providing some insights from the cooperation b...

In this chapter, an examination of the main results of the LISA and the Pro-LEAD projects together is presented. The argument made is that school leaders have a measurable, mostly indirect influence on learning outcomes. After the validation process of the Pashiardis-Brauckmann Holistic Leadership Framework was finished, it became evident from the...

In this chapter, a series of statistical analyses were carried out in order to examine the extent to which the data from the LISA project supported the Pashiardis-Brauckmann Holistic Leadership Framework. First, descriptive statistics are presented in order to acquaint the reader with the kind of data we used from the school teachers who participat...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into successful secondary school principals in Cyprus, focusing on identifying their actions and behaviours through the adoption of a systemic view of the quality of leadership in school organizations from multiple stakeholders (i.e. self, parents, students and teachers). Design/methodol...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of (Co-LEAD) (Commonwealth project on leadership in education assessment and development), the overall purpose of which was to find out school leaders' training needs around the Commonwealth in order to provide some answers with regards to the professional development needs of school pr...

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how school principals combine instructional and entrepreneurial aspects of leadership in their effort to build capacity for student learning. Four cases of successful school principals in rural primary schools in Cyprus are described as part of the International Successful School Principalship Project (...

The purpose of this article is twofold as it aims to compliment the effort of identifying the personal qualities and professional competencies generic to effective school leaders and to contribute to the comparison of effective leadership in diverse cultural contexts. Five examples of successful school principals in rural primary schools in Cyprus...

This chapter surveys the professional development of principals in Cyprus , Norway , and the United States with a particular focus on how cultural diversity issues are addressed in leadership preparation programs. Our analysis indicates that principal preparation (particularly preparation for diverse schools) varies in scope, organization, and appr...

This chapter aims to explore how successful leadership for diversity is defined, negotiated, and addressed in selected policy documents and culturally diverse schools in Norway , the USA, and Cyprus . The reanalysis of leadership practice is based on data from the International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP) case studies. We will d...

Purpose – The overall purpose of the European Union‐funded Leadership Improvement for Student Achievement (LISA) project was to explore how leadership styles, as conceptualized in the developed dynamic holistic leadership framework, directly or indirectly affect student achievement at the lower secondary level of education in seven European countri...

Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to examine more closely the tension between, on the one hand, forms of internal school improvement based on internal evaluation measures and, on the other hand, control and legitimisation needs grounded on external evaluation measures. Design/methodology/approach The clash of these forms of evaluation is a...

Purpose – This study aims to examine the validation of both the model of direct effects and the model of indirect effects of principals' leadership on student academic achievement. Design/methodology/approach – A longitudinal study was conducted in which 22 schools, 55 classes and 1,224 Cypriot primary students participated. Specifically, achievem...

The overall purpose of the Commonwealth project on leadership in education assessment and development (Co-LEAD), was to find out school leaders' training needs around the Commonwealth in order to provide some answers with regards to the professional development needs of school principals. The expectation was that this needs assessment study could p...

School heads and assistant headteachers in Cyprus attend in‐service training programmes as part of their professional development, after they are promoted to their new leadership post. A review of the literature highlights the significance of a needs analysis when designing and/or reforming in‐service training programmes. Nevertheless, there seems...

Cyprus is an island state (9,251 km2) in the eastern Mediterranean. It achieved its independence from Britain in 1960, becoming the Republic of Cyprus. The country was divided de facto in 1974 after the Turkish invasion of the northern part of the island and a solution is still being sought. It has a total population of just over 800,000. Greek and...

In this conceptual paper, an exploration of the leadership gap between theory and praxis, which manifests itself in three different kinds of fissure in current thinking and research in the field of educational leadership, management and administration, will be undertaken. It is argued that there is a public image/communication gap, which current re...

Policy makers in mainland Europe, North America, and Austral-Asia have launched programs designed to support leadership development in education. Based on this realisation, the Commonwealth Secretariat commissioned a study which was called the: "Commonwealth project on leadership in education assessment and development" (Co-LEAD). The study's main...

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When discussing the evaluation of principals in this chapter there will be necessarily a strong emphasis on what is objective, measurable, and controllable in practice as far as is feasible. In order to be able to respond to the contemporary demands of evaluation, we will address the following topics: 1. Why should school principals be evaluated? I...

Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate the future of education (pre‐primary, primary and secondary education) in Cyprus until the year 2020. Design/methodology/approach A three‐round Delphi forecasting technique is used in order to make predictions about the future of schools and schooling in Cyprus based on the opinions of a panel...

Cyprus is an island in the north-eastern Mediterranean with a surface area of 9251 km2. The estimated population in 2003 was 800,000, with an ethnic composition of 80% Greek Cypriots, 17% Turkish Cypriots, 3% foreign residents, and a few Maronites, Armenians, and Latins. These figures do not include Turkish settlers and military personnel, estimate...