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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook explores how best to understand, develop and practise educational leadership in an era of significant disruption to education. Contributors evaluate the latest developments in leadership in education and provide novel insights into key conceptual and methodological issues.
Viewing leadership in education as a fractured field, this Handbook critically analyses traditional and emerging perspectives and arguments. It reveals the fluidity of educational leadership, identifying how different practices can contribute to diverse educational goals. Chapters examine leadership at every stage of education, from early years to higher education, drawing on diverse national and cultural contexts. Global experts give practical suggestions for improving both the research and practice of leadership in education, covering important topics including leading for social justice, indigenous knowledge, leadership development and leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Handbook on Leadership in Education will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of educational sociology, leadership, management and administration. It will also be an important guide for practitioners and policy-makers seeking to build inclusive and effective educational leadership structures.
Trade Review‘This Handbook provides fresh, comprehensive and compelling insights into educational leadership. In so doing, it gives the field the serious attention it deserves and so often lacks – probing its ontological, epistemological and conceptual foundations. As such, it provides an indispensable set of thinking tools for scholars and students.’ -- Jane Wilkinson, Monash University, Australia
‘This timely Handbook brings together more than 50 distinguished authors from 14 countries, to explore key concepts, principles and research on educational leadership from a truly global perspective. This text should be invaluable for scholars, policymakers and practitioners across the world.’ -- Tony Bush, University of Nottingham, UK
Table of ContentsContents: Preface xviii 1 Introduction: leadership in education – an inherently fractured field? 1 Philip A. Woods, Amanda Roberts, Meng Tian and Howard Youngs PART I CONCEPTUAL ISSUES CONCERNING LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION Amanda Roberts, Meng Tian, Philip A. Woods and Howard Youngs 2 Conceptualising the ‘leadership’ in leadership in education 16 Linda Evans 3 Re-conceptualising the “education” in educational leadership and management 30 Steve Myran 4 Leadership and management: a relevant distinction for leadership in education? 45 Deirdre Torrance, Alison Mitchell, Julie Harvie, Margery McMahon and Christine Forde 5 Embodied leadership: a perspective on reciprocal body movement 60 Helen Payne and Pauliina Jääskeläinen 6 Leading practices and middle leadership in education 74 Peter Grootenboer and Christine Edwards-Groves 7 Teacher leadership 89 David Frost 8 Student leadership: working within, between, and against institutional structures in education 102 Alison Cook-Sather and Ebony Graham 9 Accountability, autonomy and organisational practice: how principals of successful schools enact education policy for improvement 115 Qing Gu and Aly Colman 10 A complexity approach to leading in education: lessons from group analysis 129 Kevin Flinn 11 Leadership across partnerships and networks 143 Toby Greany 12 Ethics and leadership in education 157 Christopher Branson 13 Transactional, transformational, transformative leadership: a journey towards equity and emancipation 171 Carolyn M. Shields PART II SOCIAL JUSTICE AND LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION Meng Tian, Amanda Roberts, Philip A. Woods and Howard Youngs 14 The “beyond” spaces of social justice leadership 190 Khalid H. Arar, Miguel A. Guajardo and Ira Bogotch 15 Leadership development for social justice 205 Deirdre Torrance, Christine Forde, Fiona King and Jamila Razzaq 16 Democratic leadership and education: the case of ‘learners lead’ 219 Carolyn (Callie) Grant 17 Gender and leadership in education 233 Rachel McNae 18 Green leadership in education 249 Kimberly Joy Rushing and Lisa A. W. Kensler 19 Trade unions, context and leadership in education 265 Martin Thrupp 20 Crises and traumas: challenges for leadership in education 277 Deniz Örücü 21 Challenging colonial constructions of leadership: early childhood education in Aotearoa (New Zealand) 291 Jenny Ritchie 22 Indigenous leadership in education: footprints of the past – transitioning to the future 305 Angus Macfarlane, Sonja Macfarlane and Melissa Derby 23 Socially just educational administration and leadership in Islamic cultures 319 Eugenie A. Samier 24 Leadership in education: perspectives in German-speaking cultures 331 Pierre Tulowitzki and Ella Grigoleit 25 Leadership in education: Spanish perspectives on social justice 345 Patricia Silva, Serafín Antúnez and Charles L. Slater 26 How rural principals motivate teacher professional learning in unfavourable environments: a mixed-methods study in China 359 Shengnan Liu and Daming Feng PART III RESEARCHING AND DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION Howard Youngs, Amanda Roberts, Meng Tian and Philip A. Woods 27 Leadership and knowledge construction in a networked perspective 379 Nóra Révai and Romuald Normand 28 Educational leadership research methods: a social reconstruction 394 Ira Bogotch 29 Using arts-based and embodied methods to research leadership in education 410 Suzanne Culshaw 30 Advances in reviewing and mapping research on educational leadership and management 424 Jasna Kovačević and Alisa Mujkić 31 Indigenous ways of developing leadership in education: creating a rights-based organizational consciousness 445 Peter Anderson, Angela Baeza Peña, Sun Yee Yip and Zane M. Diamond 32 The emergence and cultivation of leadership within early childhood education 458 Leanne Gibbs and Frances Press 33 Developing leadership for school education: constructions of system leadership 474 Alison Mitchell, Deirdre Torrance, Christine Forde, Julie Harvie and Margery McMahon 34 Developing leadership in higher education 491 Alan Floyd 35 Evaluating leadership in education 503 Livia Jesacher-Roessler and Esther Dominique Klein 36 Disrupted leadership in education 517 Howard Youngs, Amanda Roberts, Meng Tian and Philip A. Woods Index 537
