David Gurr

Performance and development practices for school leaders and school staff – A review of literature

Hak Hiang Koh, Malgorzata Klatt, David Gurr

Report  |  2021

How successful school principals balance their leadership and management roles to make a difference

L Drysdale, D Gurr, H Goode

Book Chapter  |  2021

Creating successful and unique schools: leadership, context and systems thinking perspectives

David Gurr, Fiona Longmuir, Christopher Reed

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION

PurposeThrough discussion of research about the leadership of two schools, this paper explores the complexity of school leadership..

Leadership for challenging times - lessons from the past and capabilities for the future

L Drysdale, D Gurr

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Australian Educational Leader

Australia: The Australian Education System

David Gurr

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter describes the complexity of Australian school education, identifying dominant and peripheral institutions and major i..

Leadership for learning in diverse settings: school leaders setting the agenda

T Townsend, M Berryman, D Gurr, L Drysdale

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter considers the roles that school leaders take in establishing a learning climate in ways that support a broad understa..

Educational Leadership Research: Is There a Compelling Reason to Change?

David M Gurr

Journal article  |  2019  |  Research in Educational Administration & Leadership

This paper is a response to recent challenges to educational leadership research from Eacott. Using a personal narrative approach,..

Educational Leadership, Culture, and Success in High-Need Schools

Elizabeth T Murakami, David Gurr, Ross Notman

Book  |  2019

The exploration of the intersection of leadership practices from the school principal and other educators, the school culture, and..

Instructional Leadership and Leadership for Learning in Schools

Book Chapter  |  2019

This chapter considers Australian research about leadership and learning. The paper begins with a review of instructional leadersh..

Panorama del liderazgo en escualas de alta complejidad (Panorama of leadership in high complexity schools),

David Gurr

Book Chapter  |  2019

Within the edited book there is a wide selection of ideas about leadership of schools in challenging circumstances and this chapte..