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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:

Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East

Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America

Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia

32 Series Titles


Educational Leadership for Transformation and Social Justice Narratives of change in South Africa

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

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

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

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 ...

Student Voice and School Governance Distributing Leadership to Youth and Adults

Student Voice and School Governance: Distributing Leadership to Youth and Adults

1st Edition

By Marc Brasof
May 18, 2017

While student voice has been well-defined in research, how to sustain youth-adult leadership work is less understood. Students are rarely invited to lead school reform efforts, and when they are, their voice is silenced by the structural arrangements and socio-cultural conditions found in schools. ...

Political Philosophy, Educational Administration and Educative Leadership

Political Philosophy, Educational Administration and Educative Leadership

1st Edition

By Reynold Macpherson
December 05, 2016

In this book Reynold Macpherson initiates a politically-critical theory of educative leadership as a fresh line of inquiry in the practice, research and theory of educational administration and educational leadership. Divided into four parts, the book introduces the sub-discipline of political ...

Educational Administration and Leadership Theoretical Foundations

Educational Administration and Leadership: Theoretical Foundations

1st Edition

Edited By David Burgess, Paul Newton
November 18, 2016

This volume provides diverse perspectives and paradigms in educational administration and leadership. Focusing on particular philosophical and theoretical schools of thought, it traces the contemporary history of debates in the field while also exploring emerging, non-traditional schools for ...

Indigenous Leadership in Higher Education

Indigenous Leadership in Higher Education

1st Edition

Edited By Robin Minthorn, Alicia Fedelina Chavez
May 06, 2016

This volume offers new perspectives from Indigenous leaders in academic affairs, student affairs and central administration to improve colleges and universities in service to Indigenous students and professionals. It discusses and illustrates ways that leadership norms, values, assumptions and ...

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