| Abstract: |
As a result of the growing interest of research communities in the field of school leadership, the concept of instructional leadership gained popularity due to its strong effect on teaching quality, teacher professional development, and learning outcomes of students. However, despite the importance of instructional leadership to education, the literature on the topic and its related constructs is quite diverse. At the same time, a number of research works on instructional leadership and school leadership in general has been published in the Philippines in recent years. The present paper analyzes 15 Scopus indexed papers focusing on teacher-related leadership concepts conducted in the Philippines. For this purpose, a narrative review was employed to synthesize studies according to the pre-designed matrix with the following criteria: author, year, country of study, respondents, methodology, purpose, and main findings. The review has demonstrated that in Philippine schools, the construct of leadership is mostly linked to such teacher-related factors as job satisfaction, commitment, performance, self-efficacy, retention, professional development, and school climate. Furthermore, this paper showed that there is a wide range of topics related to the concept of leadership in Philippine literature; namely, they cover digital, change, administrative, and teacher leadership as well as other kinds of school leadership that can have an indirect effect on instruction. Nevertheless, it should be noted that the reviewed literature is limited to the number of works dedicated to instructional leadership and related theoretical approaches, predominance of descriptive and correlational designs, and absence of longitudinal and theory-focused studies performed by researchers from the Philippines. |
