TY - JOUR
T1 - Now You See It, Now You Don’t
T2 - Understanding High Conflict and High Ambiguity as Core Policy Dimensions Through Field-Level Leaders’ Perspectives
AU - Bialik, Gadi
AU - Gibton, Dan
AU - Dror, Yuval
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - The study’s target is to analyze how field-level coalition leaders, namely, the founding principals of Israeli specialized schools, perceive a “high-ambiguity and high-conflict” symbolic educational policy that apparently opposes the basic values that underlie the foundation of specialized schools. Based on an analysis of qualitative interviews, we found that the principals perceive high conflict as supporting the establishment of new specialized schools and high ambiguity as a clear invitation for their establishment. We discuss possible explanations for this surprising policy perception.
AB - The study’s target is to analyze how field-level coalition leaders, namely, the founding principals of Israeli specialized schools, perceive a “high-ambiguity and high-conflict” symbolic educational policy that apparently opposes the basic values that underlie the foundation of specialized schools. Based on an analysis of qualitative interviews, we found that the principals perceive high conflict as supporting the establishment of new specialized schools and high ambiguity as a clear invitation for their establishment. We discuss possible explanations for this surprising policy perception.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84989235074&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15700763.2016.1232834
DO - 10.1080/15700763.2016.1232834
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AN - SCOPUS:84989235074
SN - 1570-0763
VL - 17
SP - 52
EP - 77
JO - Leadership and Policy in Schools
JF - Leadership and Policy in Schools
IS - 1
ER -