School Issues Research Articles

HOW LEADERSHIP EMERGED AS AN ISSUE FOR SCHOOLS – AND SOME REFLECTIONS ON SCHOOL LEADERSHIP TODAY

This paper complements the article elsewhere in the journal by Mick Waters. It traces the origins of the present focus within the UK on school leadership, outlines the importance of applying well-judged approaches to Appreciative Inquiry, Problem Solving and Ensuring Compliance to leadership practices in establishing organisational cultures and managing complex change and briefly suggests a re-setting of schooling purposes and aims for a new age in schooling better adjusted to our citizens’ present and future needs.

VIOLÊNCIA ESCOLAR: UM PROBLEMA SOCIAL, REAL E EMERGENTE

This article presents a broader definition of school violence in relation to thatnormally present in the bibliographical references about the theme. This extension is basedon understanding of the phenomenon as something intrinsically related to the social, culturaland historical context in which it occurs. Ponder the way how to approach the issue ofschool violence on of the manifestations that take place within schools and that are related toboth internal and external problems of everyday school life. The aim of this study was toidentify existing school violence and practice / actions taken to reduce it. With a qualitativeapproach, data collection was conducted through structured interviews and recorded withteachers, principals, judges, policeman, teenagers, students from 12 to 18 years and consultationof documents. It is concluded that the topic is current and emerging and a state actionalone cannot eliminate the problem, such a feat requires the involvement of the schoolcommunity, family and society, considering that the schools are in a frontier region and thatwill not only public policies to decrease violence and yes, a set of actions that give opportunityimprove human respect, the rescue of human values.

Book Review : Issues in the Education of Southeast Asian Refugees

The January/February issue of School Psychology International(Volume 1 Number 3) included an article entitled 'Vietnamese Refugee Children in the Chicago Public Schools'. A variety of questions and reactions were generated by the article. Some of these questions have been listed by the author followed by his response.