Coaching in educational leadership: interferences to school principals’ engagement

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dc.check.date2027-02-25
dc.contributor.authorMoynihan, Joseph A.en
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-09T09:00:21Z
dc.date.available2025-09-09T09:00:21Z
dc.date.issued2025-08-25
dc.description.abstractCoaching in education remains a relatively underexplored phenomenon within the Irish education system. Its prominence began to rise with the introduction of leadership coaching for senior school leaders in 2017 by the former Centre for School Leadership in Ireland (CSL) now part of Oide. Due to a consistently expanding workload, the role of the school principal has become less attractive and less tenable leading to serious issues with recruitment and retention. For this study, a qualitative approach to data collection was adopted. The research process was intended to help unearth any reluctance by senior school leaders to engage with personal and professional coaching. The benefits of coaching and any perceived barriers to participation were explored. All participants demonstrated some willingness to engage with a professional coach and exhibited clear receptivity to the notion of cultivating coaching cultures within their schools. Coached principals revealed deeper and more complex understandings than their uncoached counterparts. This research serves as a frame to better understand principals’ perceptions, and misperceptions, of leadership coaching in the education space. It will also open a gateway to further academic research in this soon to blossom academic field in Ireland.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationMoynihan, J.A. (2025) ‘Coaching in educational leadership: interferences to school principals’ engagement’, Irish Educational Studies, pp. 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/03323315.2025.2549104en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/03323315.2025.2549104en
dc.identifier.eissn1747-4965en
dc.identifier.endpage18en
dc.identifier.issn0332-3315en
dc.identifier.journaltitleIrish Educational Studiesen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17853
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Ltd.en
dc.rights© 2025, Educational Studies Association of Ireland. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Irish Educational Studies on 25 August 2025, available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03323315.2025.2549104en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectCoachingen
dc.subjectLeadership coachingen
dc.subjectSchool leadershipen
dc.subjectPeer-coachingen
dc.subjectCoaching cultureen
dc.subjectInterferenceen
dc.subject~Education - Journal Articles~en
dc.titleCoaching in educational leadership: interferences to school principals’ engagementen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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