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Nai-Ying Whang

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ID1044827
NAMENai-Ying Whang
GIVEN NAMESNai-Ying
FAMILY NAMEWhang
SIGNATUREWHANG N
AFFILIATIONSNational Taiwan Normal University
ORCID0000-0003-0934-4902
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1
  • Emotion-triggered sensemaking in leadership: How novice principals reconfigure school reform

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang•ARTICLE•Educational Management…•2026

    This study examines how novice principals lead reform when change is first encountered not as a clearly defined agenda for implementation but as emotionally disruptive condition. Drawing on a qualitative multiple-case study of three schools, it traces how disruptive events unsettled established meanings, triggered sensemaking, and consequential through leadership practice. The findings show that reform began not with technical execution, but with…

  • Visionary School Leadership: Guiding Sustainable Development Through Leaders’ Personal Ethos Across Urban Areas

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang•ARTICLE•Education and Urban Society•2026•References: 76

    This study examines the moral mechanisms for sustainable development in schools by exploring how a leader’s personal ethos of authenticity, empathy, fairness, open-mindedness, collaboration, service, and resilience affects vision-led leadership learning to motivate school reform across urban areas in Northern Taiwan. In the context of vision-led leadership learning, a leader’s personal ethos is viewed as the core, serving as a mental model and mi…

  • Principals’ Use of Leadership Metaphors in Three Urban Junior High Schools in Taiwan

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang•ARTICLE•Urban Education•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 79

    Principals utilize leadership metaphors to guide teachers in implementing educational, curriculum, and institutional/structural change. This study explores how principals employ metaphors to drive school change and presents a two-year qualitative case study of three urban junior high schools in Taiwan. During the first year, the researcher observed and participated in school meetings, collecting documents and data from the perspectives of princip…

  • Causes and Consequences of Corruption in Schools: The Role of Prevention and Control Promoted by Leaders’ Moral Impetus

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2023

    We explored the moderated mediating effect of the causes of corruption in schools on its consequences through prevention and control promoted by leaders’ moral impetus. We surveyed 81 Taiwanese elementary and secondary schools; 1,024 school principals, administrative staff, teachers, and parents completed valid questionnaires, which we analyzed using structural equation modeling. Corruption prevention and control promoted by leaders’ moral impetu…

  • The Virtue of School Leadership: Three Paths to Fulfilling Value Forms

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2021

    This study discusses the fulfillment of value forms by examining the virtue of school leadership. The virtue of school leadership stresses character traits in leaders that focus on the pursuit of excellence, appear as a value form, comprise paths to fulfilling values, reinforce leaders’ positive motivation, and foster reform in schools. To investigate this phenomenon, a qualitative method was adopted to interview 18 leaders from schools in northe…

  • An Exploration of School Organization Metaphors and Their Contribution to School Change

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 52

    This study explores the development of organizational theory through understanding comprehensive resources of metaphors and the synergy of these metaphors' changes in momentum. The comprehensive resources of organizational metaphors emphasize that exploration and detection of the complementary relationship between multiple metaphors can promote the development of organizational theory and the acquisition of generic competence requirements to stim…

  • Development of School Food Education: Teachers’ Teaching Interventions in Urban Middle Schools of Northern Taiwan

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang, Ling-Fang Yan•ARTICLE•Education and Urban Society•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 30

    This research explores current teaching interventions in the development of school food education in urban schools of northern Taiwan, focusing on the relationship between teachers’ teaching attitudes, teaching knowledge, and teaching commitments. As the urban schools of northern Taiwan (Taipei, New Taipei City, and Taoyuan City) are all classified as metropolitan areas, schools in these areas place a greater emphasis on students’ dietary habits.…

  • Principals’ Use of Leadership Metaphors in Three Urban Junior High Schools in Taiwan

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang•ARTICLE•Urban Education•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 79

    Principals utilize leadership metaphors to guide teachers in implementing educational, curriculum, and institutional/structural change. This study explores how principals employ metaphors to drive school change and presents a two-year qualitative case study of three urban junior high schools in Taiwan. During the first year, the researcher observed and participated in school meetings, collecting documents and data from the perspectives of princip…

  • An Exploration of School Organization Metaphors and Their Contribution to School Change

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 52

    This study explores the development of organizational theory through understanding comprehensive resources of metaphors and the synergy of these metaphors' changes in momentum. The comprehensive resources of organizational metaphors emphasize that exploration and detection of the complementary relationship between multiple metaphors can promote the development of organizational theory and the acquisition of generic competence requirements to stim…

  • Development of School Food Education: Teachers’ Teaching Interventions in Urban Middle Schools of Northern Taiwan

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang, Ling-Fang Yan•ARTICLE•Education and Urban Society•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 30

    This research explores current teaching interventions in the development of school food education in urban schools of northern Taiwan, focusing on the relationship between teachers’ teaching attitudes, teaching knowledge, and teaching commitments. As the urban schools of northern Taiwan (Taipei, New Taipei City, and Taoyuan City) are all classified as metropolitan areas, schools in these areas place a greater emphasis on students’ dietary habits.…

  • Development of School Food Education: Teachers’ Teaching Interventions in Urban Middle Schools of Northern Taiwan

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang, Ling-Fang Yan•ARTICLE•Education and Urban Society•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 30

    This research explores current teaching interventions in the development of school food education in urban schools of northern Taiwan, focusing on the relationship between teachers’ teaching attitudes, teaching knowledge, and teaching commitments. As the urban schools of northern Taiwan (Taipei, New Taipei City, and Taoyuan City) are all classified as metropolitan areas, schools in these areas place a greater emphasis on students’ dietary habits.…

  • The Virtue of School Leadership: Three Paths to Fulfilling Value Forms

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2021

    This study discusses the fulfillment of value forms by examining the virtue of school leadership. The virtue of school leadership stresses character traits in leaders that focus on the pursuit of excellence, appear as a value form, comprise paths to fulfilling values, reinforce leaders’ positive motivation, and foster reform in schools. To investigate this phenomenon, a qualitative method was adopted to interview 18 leaders from schools in northe…

  • An Exploration of School Organization Metaphors and Their Contribution to School Change

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 52

    This study explores the development of organizational theory through understanding comprehensive resources of metaphors and the synergy of these metaphors' changes in momentum. The comprehensive resources of organizational metaphors emphasize that exploration and detection of the complementary relationship between multiple metaphors can promote the development of organizational theory and the acquisition of generic competence requirements to stim…

  • Causes and Consequences of Corruption in Schools: The Role of Prevention and Control Promoted by Leaders’ Moral Impetus

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2023

    We explored the moderated mediating effect of the causes of corruption in schools on its consequences through prevention and control promoted by leaders’ moral impetus. We surveyed 81 Taiwanese elementary and secondary schools; 1,024 school principals, administrative staff, teachers, and parents completed valid questionnaires, which we analyzed using structural equation modeling. Corruption prevention and control promoted by leaders’ moral impetu…

  • Principals’ Use of Leadership Metaphors in Three Urban Junior High Schools in Taiwan

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang•ARTICLE•Urban Education•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 79

    Principals utilize leadership metaphors to guide teachers in implementing educational, curriculum, and institutional/structural change. This study explores how principals employ metaphors to drive school change and presents a two-year qualitative case study of three urban junior high schools in Taiwan. During the first year, the researcher observed and participated in school meetings, collecting documents and data from the perspectives of princip…

  • Emotion-triggered sensemaking in leadership: How novice principals reconfigure school reform

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang•ARTICLE•Educational Management…•2026

    This study examines how novice principals lead reform when change is first encountered not as a clearly defined agenda for implementation but as emotionally disruptive condition. Drawing on a qualitative multiple-case study of three schools, it traces how disruptive events unsettled established meanings, triggered sensemaking, and consequential through leadership practice. The findings show that reform began not with technical execution, but with…

  • Visionary School Leadership: Guiding Sustainable Development Through Leaders’ Personal Ethos Across Urban Areas

    Open Access•Nai-Ying Whang•ARTICLE•Education and Urban Society•2026•References: 76

    This study examines the moral mechanisms for sustainable development in schools by exploring how a leader’s personal ethos of authenticity, empathy, fairness, open-mindedness, collaboration, service, and resilience affects vision-led leadership learning to motivate school reform across urban areas in Northern Taiwan. In the context of vision-led leadership learning, a leader’s personal ethos is viewed as the core, serving as a mental model and mi…

Psychology (5 works) · Instructional leadership (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Qualitative research (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (3 works) · Education Practices and Challenges (2 works) · Educational leadership (2 works)

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