Mustafa Toprak
Biographic Data
| ID | 5815730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mustafa Toprak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mustafa |
| FAMILY NAME | Toprak |
| SIGNATURE | TOPRAK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9390-3481 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being
This study aims to offer a review of research on the impact of leadership on shaping teachers’ subjective well-being, utilizing metadata from the Web of Science. The study utilized bibliometric analysis techniques to showcase the prominent researchers and countries, along with their collaborative networks and the field's scientific foundations. Narrative reviews of the main themes across the entire corpus and h-classics publications provided furt…
School leadership in the United Arab Emirates
This paper reviews research on school leadership in the United Arab Emirates by addressing the question: How does existing scholarship conceptualize and reflect values-based approaches to school leadership? To answer this question, we conducted a narrative review of 35 studies. The review process was guided by the principles of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses to support a transparent and systematic selection…
The Network Structure of School Principal Resilience
The ability of school principals to demonstrate resilience enables them to effectively lead, adapt and thrive amidst the ever‐changing landscape of educational challenges and transformations. Despite its necessity, research on principal resilience remains largely underdeveloped and is still in its early stages. The current study aims to fill this gap using network analysis to examine the inter‐structural principal resilience network and gender di…
Inclusion in Sharjah private schools
Teachers’ affective and physical well-being
Purpose This study aims to examine the role of teachers’ emotional intelligence (EI) and emotional labour (EL) strategies in their affective and physical well-being. Design/methodology/approach The quantitative data were collected from 436 primary school teachers. Likert-type scales were used to measure the variables. Confirmatory factor analyses were performed for the construct validity of the scales, and path analysis was used to test the hypot…
Teacher stress and work-family conflict
Schools are becoming more stressful work environments, and teachers are becoming more vulnerable to job-related stress because of innovation overload, high job demands, and work-family conflict (WFC). Enhancing teachers’ psychological capacities may prove helpful in managing stress under such work conditions. While past research has focused on the relationship between WFC and stress, there is limited empirical evidence in the education context on…
Looking behind the curtain”
Scholars have examined the pedagogical implications of culture jamming as a challenge to the normalisation of consumer culture, but there is limited empirical research exploring its practical applications in learning and teaching. This case study involved fifteen preservice visual arts teachers from a state university's undergraduate arts and crafts teacher education programme in Türkiye . The classroom activities focused on critical inquiry and …
Harnessing the Power of Ego Network Layers for Link Prediction in Online Social Networks
Being able to recommend links between users in online social networks is important for users to connect with like-minded individuals as well as for the platforms themselves and third parties leveraging social media information to grow their business. Predictions are typically based on unsupervised or supervised learning, often leveraging simple yet effective graph topological information, such as the number of common neighbors. However, we argue …
Journalists’ ego networks in Twitter
Regional intergovernmental organizations in the Global South
Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGOs) play unclear roles in education policy making and transfer. Much comparative education scholarship on the topic focuses on exploring the interplay between global and local/national actors in education policy, overlooking regional dimensions. To deepen our understanding, we analyzed the strategic plans of four RIGOs in Africa, the Arab and Islamic worlds, and Southeast Asia. Qualitative policy analy…
Empowering teachers during refugee crises
Re-conceptualizing teacher evaluation and supervision in the light of educational reforms in Egypt
The aim of this paper is to propose an instructional leadership model in which principals and supervisors shift from mistake finders to catalysts of teachers’ professional growth. This intended, differentiated supervision model in which teacher evaluation is embedded empowers teachers’ capacities, removes performance measurement agitation, and turns these practices into self-exploratory missions. The study is guided by constructivist principles a…
Sustainability of education reforms
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) started its operations in Egypt in 1975. Its work on education development included supporting access and gender equity, community participation, professional development, and also extended to policy reforms. Education Reform Program (ERP) was one of USAID’s initiatives implemented between 2004 and 2009. The program intended to support the Egyptian Ministry of Education (MOE) with str…
Restoring Hope for Syrian Refugees
This qualitative, phenomenological case study was designed to elicit Syrian refugee students’ perceptions regarding the individuals who provide them with the social support needed for academic success. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 10 male Syrian eighth graders at a public middle school in Lebanon. House's social support framework guided this study and served as the theoretical lens through which data were collected and analysed.…
Structural Equation Modelling on the Relationships between Teachers’ Trust in Manager, Commitment to Manager, Satisfaction with Manager and Intent to Leave / Modeliranje strukturnih jednadžbi na temel…
This study aims to determine the relationships among teachers' trust in the manager, commitment to the manager, satisfaction with the manager and teachers' intent to leave. The data was collected on the sample of 478 primary school teachers using self-report scales. Two alternative structural models were examined: one proposed that satisfaction with the manager causes commitment, while the other one proposed that commitment causes satisfaction. B…
Mediation Effect of Schools’ Psychological Climate on the Relationship between Principals’ Leadership Style and Organizational Commitment
Educational organizations are facing new challenges due to global changes affecting countries economically, cultural and socially. This wave of changes is creating new demands from schools and school leaders must look for ways to meet these demands and to direct their employees towards organizational goals. School climate and teachers’ commitment to organization, which are two significant assets for organizational performance, are influenced by h…
Restoring Hope for Syrian Refugees
This qualitative, phenomenological case study was designed to elicit Syrian refugee students’ perceptions regarding the individuals who provide them with the social support needed for academic success. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 10 male Syrian eighth graders at a public middle school in Lebanon. House's social support framework guided this study and served as the theoretical lens through which data were collected and analysed.…
Empowering teachers during refugee crises
Mediation Effect of Schools’ Psychological Climate on the Relationship between Principals’ Leadership Style and Organizational Commitment
Educational organizations are facing new challenges due to global changes affecting countries economically, cultural and socially. This wave of changes is creating new demands from schools and school leaders must look for ways to meet these demands and to direct their employees towards organizational goals. School climate and teachers’ commitment to organization, which are two significant assets for organizational performance, are influenced by h…
Structural Equation Modelling on the Relationships between Teachers’ Trust in Manager, Commitment to Manager, Satisfaction with Manager and Intent to Leave / Modeliranje strukturnih jednadžbi na temel…
This study aims to determine the relationships among teachers' trust in the manager, commitment to the manager, satisfaction with the manager and teachers' intent to leave. The data was collected on the sample of 478 primary school teachers using self-report scales. Two alternative structural models were examined: one proposed that satisfaction with the manager causes commitment, while the other one proposed that commitment causes satisfaction. B…
Mediation Effect of Schools’ Psychological Climate on the Relationship between Principals’ Leadership Style and Organizational Commitment
Educational organizations are facing new challenges due to global changes affecting countries economically, cultural and socially. This wave of changes is creating new demands from schools and school leaders must look for ways to meet these demands and to direct their employees towards organizational goals. School climate and teachers’ commitment to organization, which are two significant assets for organizational performance, are influenced by h…
Restoring Hope for Syrian Refugees
This qualitative, phenomenological case study was designed to elicit Syrian refugee students’ perceptions regarding the individuals who provide them with the social support needed for academic success. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 10 male Syrian eighth graders at a public middle school in Lebanon. House's social support framework guided this study and served as the theoretical lens through which data were collected and analysed.…
Re-conceptualizing teacher evaluation and supervision in the light of educational reforms in Egypt
The aim of this paper is to propose an instructional leadership model in which principals and supervisors shift from mistake finders to catalysts of teachers’ professional growth. This intended, differentiated supervision model in which teacher evaluation is embedded empowers teachers’ capacities, removes performance measurement agitation, and turns these practices into self-exploratory missions. The study is guided by constructivist principles a…
Sustainability of education reforms
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) started its operations in Egypt in 1975. Its work on education development included supporting access and gender equity, community participation, professional development, and also extended to policy reforms. Education Reform Program (ERP) was one of USAID’s initiatives implemented between 2004 and 2009. The program intended to support the Egyptian Ministry of Education (MOE) with str…
Regional intergovernmental organizations in the Global South
Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGOs) play unclear roles in education policy making and transfer. Much comparative education scholarship on the topic focuses on exploring the interplay between global and local/national actors in education policy, overlooking regional dimensions. To deepen our understanding, we analyzed the strategic plans of four RIGOs in Africa, the Arab and Islamic worlds, and Southeast Asia. Qualitative policy analy…
Empowering teachers during refugee crises
Journalists’ ego networks in Twitter
Harnessing the Power of Ego Network Layers for Link Prediction in Online Social Networks
Being able to recommend links between users in online social networks is important for users to connect with like-minded individuals as well as for the platforms themselves and third parties leveraging social media information to grow their business. Predictions are typically based on unsupervised or supervised learning, often leveraging simple yet effective graph topological information, such as the number of common neighbors. However, we argue …
Teachers’ affective and physical well-being
Purpose This study aims to examine the role of teachers’ emotional intelligence (EI) and emotional labour (EL) strategies in their affective and physical well-being. Design/methodology/approach The quantitative data were collected from 436 primary school teachers. Likert-type scales were used to measure the variables. Confirmatory factor analyses were performed for the construct validity of the scales, and path analysis was used to test the hypot…
Teacher stress and work-family conflict
Schools are becoming more stressful work environments, and teachers are becoming more vulnerable to job-related stress because of innovation overload, high job demands, and work-family conflict (WFC). Enhancing teachers’ psychological capacities may prove helpful in managing stress under such work conditions. While past research has focused on the relationship between WFC and stress, there is limited empirical evidence in the education context on…
Looking behind the curtain”
Scholars have examined the pedagogical implications of culture jamming as a challenge to the normalisation of consumer culture, but there is limited empirical research exploring its practical applications in learning and teaching. This case study involved fifteen preservice visual arts teachers from a state university's undergraduate arts and crafts teacher education programme in Türkiye . The classroom activities focused on critical inquiry and …
The Network Structure of School Principal Resilience
The ability of school principals to demonstrate resilience enables them to effectively lead, adapt and thrive amidst the ever‐changing landscape of educational challenges and transformations. Despite its necessity, research on principal resilience remains largely underdeveloped and is still in its early stages. The current study aims to fill this gap using network analysis to examine the inter‐structural principal resilience network and gender di…
Inclusion in Sharjah private schools
Demystifying the impact of educational leadership on teachers’ subjective well-being
This study aims to offer a review of research on the impact of leadership on shaping teachers’ subjective well-being, utilizing metadata from the Web of Science. The study utilized bibliometric analysis techniques to showcase the prominent researchers and countries, along with their collaborative networks and the field's scientific foundations. Narrative reviews of the main themes across the entire corpus and h-classics publications provided furt…
School leadership in the United Arab Emirates
This paper reviews research on school leadership in the United Arab Emirates by addressing the question: How does existing scholarship conceptualize and reflect values-based approaches to school leadership? To answer this question, we conducted a narrative review of 35 studies. The review process was guided by the principles of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses to support a transparent and systematic selection…
Psychology (11 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (4 works)