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Petros Pashiardis
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Professor Petros Pashiardis
Dr. Petros Pashiardis is a Professor of Educational Leadership and the Academic Head of the “Studies in Education Program” with the Open University of Cyprus. He has also worked at the University of Cyprus from 1992-2006 as an Associate Professor of Educational Administration. Petros studied Educational Administration at the University of Texas at Austin as a Fulbright Scholar from 1987 to1990. Before joining the University of Cyprus he worked as a school teacher, an Education Consultant with the Texas Association of School Boards and an Assistant Professor with the University of Texas-Permian Basin where he was heavily involved in research and teaching on the School Principalship, on Strategic Planning in Education as well as other Educational Leadership issues. He has also worked or lectured in many countries including Malta, Great Britain, India, New Zealand, Greece, Germany, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States. Furthermore, during the periods of January-August 1999, Summer 2000, Summer 2001, and Summer 2002, he was invited as a Visiting Associate Research Scientist with the Texas A & M University. On his own or with others, he has authored well over 80 articles in scholarly and professional journals many of them on aspects of leaders and leadership. Within Cyprus, this has included research into the role of the principal. He has published a book in Greek on teacher evaluation and papers on the role of the principal in Cyprus. He has also published a book in Greek on the Effective Schools Movement together with his wife. However, his interests in this area have become increasingly international, stretching to the USA where it all began, the UK, USA, New Zealand, Malta, India and Greece. In his role as vice president for publications for the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management, he edited a book entitled International Perspectives in Educational Leadership, which has been published by the University of Hong Kong-Institute for Education in 2001. Most recently, he co-edited the International Handbook on the Preparation and Development of School Leaders, together with Jacky Lumby and Gary Crow. As of October 2004 and until the end of 2008, Professor Pashiardis has been elected as President of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management.