IPPN

Published: 07 December 2005

I would like to extend an invitation to you to take part in a PhD research project about School Principals.

My name is Rob Taylor, a School Principal. I am completing a PhD part-time through Victoria University Wellington.

The focus of my research is to investigate how decentralising the administration of our schools continues to impact on the personal and professional life of the school principal.

In I understand that you use a system of Boards of Management, In New Zealand we use a system of Boards of Trustees and Victoria Australia uses a system of School Councils. These three localised systems for administering our schools have some similarities and of course differences. I aim to compare these three systems to find out how decentralised systems for administering our schools is helpful or unhelpful to you personally as a school principal.

I need to talk to some of you personally. If you are willing to share personal experiences and stories about your life and work as a school principal in this is a chance to "say what you want to say and to say it in confidence". At the same time you will be adding valuable data to a piece of groundbreaking international research about what is happening to and for us as school principals. All ethical considerations will be observed to ensure professional and personal safety.

I hope to be able to conduct interviews using telephone conferencing. Interviews will be transcribed for you to read and amend before I use them as data for my research.

If you would like to be involved in this research please email me at; principal@colwill.school.nz with your contact details.