This book provides a rigorous grounding in contemporary educational leadership theories and their application to policy and practice globally across educational contexts. The book showcases contributions from authors with a deeply embedded understanding of educational leadership and in schools’ context. It will focus on major aspects of school leadership, including contemporary theories and models in the 21st century, the role of the principal, the work of senior and middle leaders, leadership, and student outcomes. Each chapter will engage with theory, policy, and practice, and draw on authors’ own research and with other empirical and conceptual sources.
Table of Content
Educational Leadership in the Twenty-First Century.- Leadership for Learning in Schools in the 21st Century.- Distributed Instructional Leadership: The SHARE Model.-Authentic and Moral Leadership Practices in Schools.- Servant Leadership: Operationalising an Oxymoron.- Inclusive Leadership for Schools: Practices, Challenges, and Future Directions.- Contextual Leadership: Characteristics and Practices.- Turnaround Leadership: Building the Sustainability of Schools.- System Leadership in Educational Context.- Technology Leadership for Schools in the Twenty-First Century.
About the author
Dr. Donnie Adams obtained his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Universiti Malaya under the Bright Sparks scholarship and was awarded the Universiti Malaya’s Excellence Award 2016: Ph D Completion in Less than 3 Years. He was recently awarded the Emerald Young Researcher Award 2021 by Emerald Publishing and Universiti Malaya’s Excellence Award for Community Engagement in 2019. He is Editor-in-Chief for the
International Online
Journal of Educational Leadership (IOJEL) and Editor for
Cogent Education. He is actively involved in research and development work towards the area of inclusive school leadership and school-wide reformation of inclusive education agenda in Malaysia. He has led research projects with The British Council, ETH Zürich, The HEAD Foundation, UNICEF, Asian Universities Alliance, and Teach for Malaysia. Recently, he is listed by Britishpedia as one of the ‘Successful People in Malaysia’ in the field of Education.
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