Routledge Research in Educational Leadership
About the Book Series
This series aims to enhance our understanding of key challenges and facilitate ongoing academic debate within the field of Educational Leadership.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Hardwick: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
School Leadership for Democratic Education in South Africa: Perspectives, Achievements and Future Challenges Post-Apartheid
1st Edition
Edited
By Tsediso Michael Makoelle, Thabo Makhalemele., Pierre du Plessis
January 09, 2023
School Leadership for Democratic Education in South Africa explores the democratization and modernization of education in South Africa, analyzing the state of school leadership in South African schools from the time of the new democratic education dispensation in 1994 to the present day. The book ...
Empirical Understanding of School Leaders’ Ethical Judgements: Applications of the Ethical Perspectives Instrument
1st Edition
By Ori Eyal, Izhak Berkovich
December 30, 2022
This volume offers a holistic, empirically grounded examination of the factors which influence educational leaders’ ethical judgments in their day-to-day work in schools. Drawing on a range of quantitative studies, the text utilizes organizational psychology to explore multiple ethical paradigms....
Exploring the Role of the School Principal in Predominantly White Middle Schools: School Leadership to Promote Multicultural Understanding
1st Edition
By Jacquelynne Anne Boivin
May 30, 2022
By detailing an explanatory sequential mixed methods study grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT), this book explores the role of effective educational leadership in developing multicultural acceptance in predominantly white schools. Drawing on the rich experiences and accounts of school ...
A Model of Emotional Leadership in Schools: Effective Leadership to Support Teachers’ Emotional Wellness
1st Edition
By Izhak Berkovich, Ori Eyal
May 06, 2022
Against the backdrop of research that tells us emotions are playing an increasingly prevalent role in organizations’ performance, this text draws on empirical studies to powerfully argue that it is incumbent upon school principals to display emotional leadership within the education system. A ...
Educational Administration and Leadership Identity Formation: International Theories, Problems and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Eugenie A. Samier, Peter Milley
April 29, 2022
Educational Administration and Leadership Identity Formation explores approaches and issues that arise in leadership identity formation in a variety of educational contexts. Bringing together a range of national and international contributions, this volume provides a global perspective on this ...
Glocalization and the Development of a Hybrid Leadership Model: A Study of Chinese University Presidency
1st Edition
By Qingyan Tian
April 29, 2022
Through in-depth interviews with the presidents of major Chinese universities, this text explores the changing demands on leaders in Higher Education in the wake of globalization, and develops a contemporary model of Hybrid Leadership. Glocalization and the Development of a Hybrid Leadership Model ...
Generational Identity, Educational Change, and School Leadership
1st Edition
By Corrie Stone-Johnson
June 07, 2019
Generational identity plays a large role in how teachers view educational change and school reform. Teachers of the Boomer generation, an era characterized by optimism and innovation, tend to be more resistant to change than those of Generation X, for whom standardization represents the norm, not a...
The Hermeneutics of Jesuit Leadership in Higher Education: The Meaning and Culture of Catholic-Jesuit Presidents
1st Edition
By Maduabuchi Muoneme, S.J.
June 04, 2019
With a focus on seven Jesuit university leaders emeriti and the late University of Notre Dame President Father Theodore Hesburgh, this book offers a critical analysis of the common values, philosophies, and leadership practices of Jesuit-Catholic university presidents within the broader higher ...
Educational Leadership for Transformation and Social Justice: Narratives of change in South Africa
1st Edition
By John Ambrosio
May 04, 2018
Educational Leadership for Transformation and Social Justice examines the relationship between the lived experiences of educational leaders at the University of the Free State in South Africa and how they think about and practice leadership for transformation and social justice. Based on ...
Educational Leadership in Becoming: On the potential of leadership in action
1st Edition
By Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid
March 07, 2018
Educational Leadership in Becoming reconsiders educational leadership in its current forms, and presents a more plausible form of educational leadership to contend with the complexities currently found in universities and schools. Much of the literature in vogue concerning educational leadership ...
Leading for Change: Race, intimacy and leadership on divided university campuses
1st Edition
By Jonathan Jansen
December 21, 2017
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, Jonathan Jansen demonstrates ...
Restorative Justice in Urban Schools: Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline
1st Edition
By Anita Wadhwa
May 18, 2017
The school-to-prison pipeline is often the path for marginalized students, particularly black males, who are three times as likely to be suspended as White students. This volume provides an ethnographic portrait of how educators can implement restorative justice to build positive school cultures ...