Full Description
This book offers provocations for what's now and what's next in educational leadership, simultaneously bringing the field both back to its basics—of equity, democracy, humanity, and education for all—and forward to productive, innovative, and necessary possibilities. Written during the pandemic reality of 2020, this collection shares the global voices and expertise of prominent and emerging leaders, scholars, and practitioners in education from the UK, the United States, South America, Canada, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East. The authors engage with the complexities and uncertainties of leading in education. They examine research, reflections, and real stories from which school leaders, education system leaders, policymakers, and researchers in the field of educational leadership, can learn, and in which they will find honesty, authority, and inspiration to guide the future of the field.
The new perspectives and hopeful alternatives presented in this outstanding book are essential to researchers, school leaders, and policymakers, and are key to advancing education into positive and democratic futures.
Contents
Introduction: What's now and what's next in educational leadership Section I: Knowledge and Theory of Educational Leadership 1. Back to the future: Recuperating educational administration? 2. Leading forward by salvaging for the future 3. Wayfinding: Navigating complexity for sustainable school leadership 4. Leading in context: Lessons from Nuance 5. Distributed leadership and networking: Exploring the evidence base Section 2: Diversity and Inclusion in Educational Leadership 6. Multilevel distributed leadership: From why to how 7. 'Deadly leadership' in the pursuit of Indigenous education excellence 8. Leadership, identity, and intersectionality 9. Women as leaders in education: What works and what must we improve? 10. A tale of two leaders: Reflecting on senior co-leadership in higher education Section 3: Systems and Structures for Educational Leadership 11. Leading large-scale educational change in the twenty-first century: Educational leadership pre-, during, and post-pandemic 12. Educational administration's paradises lost: A flâneur/se stroll through the futures past 13. Schools as ecosystems of leadership: Leading by all and for all 14. Leading to liberate learning: Educational change meets social movements. 15. What could education leadership look like outside the system? Conclusion: Educational leadership for all
