This book examines the subject of school leadership as a profession. It tackles questions of what it means to be professional and to work within a profession and how school leadership fits within these definitions.... Lees meer.

This book offers new theoretical ground for thinking about and transforming leadership and higher education worldwide. Through an examination of the construct of intimacy and nearness including emotional spiritual psychic intellectual and physical closeness Jon... Lees meer.

Asks who decides how to organise schools around criteria of ability and or disability and what these decisions imply for leadership in schools. The book interrogates policies research and personnel preparation practices which constitute interactions discourses and in... Lees meer.

Helps educational leaders to develop the competencies and capacities required to create socially just and equitable schools. This book is for educational leaders interested in transforming systems and decolonizing education rooted socially structurally and ideologicall... Lees meer.

This edited volume brings together leading scholars from the fields of educational leadership and policy studies to discuss qualitative quantitative and mixed research methods in an accessible and pedagogically well-designed volume. This edited volume brings togeth... Lees meer.

This book presents insights into the experiences and perspectives of educators in formal positions of leadership involved in decision-making processes in an education system. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in the New Brunswick education system the author ide... Lees meer.

School Leadership for Democratic Education in South Africa explores the democratization and modernization of education in South Africa analysing the state of school leadership in South African schools from the time of the new democratic education dispensation in 1994 t... Lees meer.

Emotions are at the core of the educational enterprise but their role is mostly left unexamined. This book explores the role of emotions across students teachers and school leaders. It showcases current theoretical and empirical research on emotions in educational sett... Lees meer.

This book documents and deconstructs the concept of educational leadership within various education settings originating from diverse global environments. This book documents and deconstructs the concept of educational leadership within various education settings origi... Lees meer.

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The Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversityis the first research-based handbook that comprehensively addresses the broad diversity in U.S. schools by race ethnicity culture language gender disability sexual identity and class.... Lees meer.

Written for both new and experienced researchers this book is the essential guide to research in educational leadership and management. The second edition maintains the accessibility of the first all chapters have been revised and updated and the scope of the book ha... Lees meer.

Carrying out leadership research in educational establishments can be challenging but it is also rewarding. This accessible book offers sound practical advice and a clear conceptual framework for this research.... Lees meer.

This book explores the multicultural and non-Western contexts behind the approaches problems and issues that arise in research methodologies when used in relation to educational administration and leadership. This volume argues that increasing internationalisation and... Lees meer.

Helps educational leaders to develop the competencies and capacities required to create socially just and equitable schools. This book is for educational leaders interested in transforming systems and decolonizing education rooted socially structurally and ideologicall... Lees meer.