Professor CHRISTOPHER DAY's Outputs (5)

Educational research and the quality of successful school leadership (2024)
Report
Day, C., Ylimaki, R., & Gu, Q. (2024). Educational research and the quality of successful school leadership. UNESCO

This paper outlines the International Successful School Principalship Project’s (ISSPP)contribution to the 2024/5 UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report on leadership and education which examines: i) the requirements of good leadership in e... Read More about Educational research and the quality of successful school leadership.

Successful School Principalship: A Meta-Synthesis of 20 Years of International Case Studies (2024)
Journal Article
Sun, J., Day, C., Zhang, R., Zhang, H., Huang, T., & Lin, J. (2024). Successful School Principalship: A Meta-Synthesis of 20 Years of International Case Studies. Education Sciences, 14(9), Article 929. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14090929

This meta-synthesis crosses international borders by analyzing successful principalship across nine countries. With careful, detailed, systematic, and analytic synthesis, it critically explores research-informed understandings of successful principal... Read More about Successful School Principalship: A Meta-Synthesis of 20 Years of International Case Studies.

‘Positive Disruption’: The Courage to Lead in Times of Reform in England (2024)
Book Chapter
Gu, Q., Mincu, M., & Day, C. (2024). ‘Positive Disruption’: The Courage to Lead in Times of Reform in England. In How Successful Schools Are More than Effective: Principals Who Build and Sustain Teacher and Student Wellbeing and Achievement (47-72). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62735-4_3

This chapter proposes a fresh analytical perspective to investigate how a school principal has initiated and sustained the ‘positive disruption’ of governance, structure and culture in one organisation over time. Our findings draw upon a series of in... Read More about ‘Positive Disruption’: The Courage to Lead in Times of Reform in England.

How Successful Schools Are More than Effective: Principals Who Build and Sustain Teacher and Student Wellbeing and Achievement (2024)
Book
Day, C., & Gurr, D. (2024). How Successful Schools Are More than Effective: Principals Who Build and Sustain Teacher and Student Wellbeing and Achievement. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62735-4

Lessons from Two Decades of Research about Successful School Leadership in England: A Humanistic Approach (2024)
Journal Article
Mincu, M., Colman, A., Day, C., & Gu, Q. (2024). Lessons from Two Decades of Research about Successful School Leadership in England: A Humanistic Approach. Education Sciences, 14(2), Article 187. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14020187

This paper reviews the research on successful school principalship carried out in England over the last 20 years. Drawing on evidence synthesized from the International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP) and related English school leader... Read More about Lessons from Two Decades of Research about Successful School Leadership in England: A Humanistic Approach.