The Principal's Roles in Building Capacity for Change

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dc.contributor.advisorGordon, Stephen P.
dc.contributor.authorButler, Sara Griffiths
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBoone, Michael
dc.contributor.committeeMemberO'Malley, Michael P.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberReardon, Robert F.
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-16T14:19:25Z
dc.date.available2017-05-16T14:19:25Z
dc.date.issued2017-05
dc.description.abstractThis qualitative dissertation explores how the principal’s leadership roles build capacity for change and how chaos theory contributes to this understanding. The roles studied include distributive leadership, moral leadership, social justice leadership, democratic leadership, and instructional leadership. The tenets of chaos theory examined include change as nonlinear, feedback loops and fractals, turbulence, complexity, strange attractors, and the butterfly effect. The research participants include three urban Texas high school principals. Each principal had a tenure of three or more years, at a campus with a population of at least 50% children of color, and had structures in place on campus to implement change. Grounded theory was used to code data, including principal interviews, observations, and artifacts. Findings show that capacity building is foundational to school improvement, principal roles are key to a change process’s success, and chaos theory can contribute to and highlight our understandings of a campus change process. These findings can better inform principals, principal preparation programs, and districts on meeting the needs of all children.
dc.description.departmentCounseling, Leadership, Adult Education, and School Psychology
dc.formatText
dc.format.extent173 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationButler, S. G. (2017). The principal's roles in building capacity for change (Unpublished dissertation). Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/6574
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectcapacity building
dc.subjectchange process
dc.subjectchaos theory
dc.subjectdistributive leadership
dc.subjectmoral leadership
dc.subjectdemocratic leadership
dc.subjectsocial justice leadership
dc.subjectinstructional leadership
dc.titleThe Principal's Roles in Building Capacity for Change
dc.typeDissertation
thesis.degree.departmentCounseling, Leadership, Adult Education, & School Psychology
thesis.degree.disciplineSchool Improvement
thesis.degree.grantorTexas State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy

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