Handbook on Leadership in Education

Author: Philip A. Woods, Amanda Roberts, Meng Tian and Howard Youngs Series: Elgar Handbooks in Education

This comprehensive Handbook explores how to best 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.

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This 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.

Critic Reviews

‘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

About the Author

Edited by Philip A. Woods, Professor of Educational Policy, Democracy and Leadership, Schools of Law and Education, University of Hertfordshire, Amanda Roberts, Visiting Lecturer, Schools of Law and Education, University of Hertfordshire, Meng Tian, Associate Professor in Educational Leadership, School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK and Howard Youngs, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand