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How Successful Secondary School Principals in England Respond to Policy Reforms: The Influence of Biography (2018)
Journal Article
Day, C., & Gu, Q. (2018). How Successful Secondary School Principals in England Respond to Policy Reforms: The Influence of Biography. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 17(3), 332-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2018.1496339

© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This article examines how values embedded in the biographies of principals of successful schools influence their responses to systemic policy reforms. Drawing on examples from two secondary principals with simila... Read More about How Successful Secondary School Principals in England Respond to Policy Reforms: The Influence of Biography.

Professional Identity Matters: Agency, Emotions, and Resilience (2018)
Book Chapter
Day, C. (2018). Professional Identity Matters: Agency, Emotions, and Resilience. In P. A. Schutz, J. Hong, & D. C. Francis (Eds.), Research on Teacher Identity: mapping challenges and innovations, 61-70. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-93836-3_6

I will take as given that: (1) a core defining feature of teacher professionalism is a positive sense of professional identity; (2) identity is an amalgam of the personal and professional selves, and is represented through the dynamic interplay betwe... Read More about Professional Identity Matters: Agency, Emotions, and Resilience.