Challenges and Opportunities of Educational Leadership Research and Practice
The State of the Field and Its Multiple Futures
by Bowers, Alex J.; Shoho, Alan R.; Barnett, Bruce G.
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- The work of the field of educational leadership and administration research to date.
- The opportunities and challenges of new visions of leadership in traditional and non?traditional schools.
- The evolving state of research evidence in educational leadership and the increasing sophistication of multiple methodologies, including qualitative research, quantitative modeling, the ability to test theory, and the increasing opportunities brought on by the intersection of data, research, and practice.
- The preparation of educational leaders.
- And the emerging trends in the professional development of school leaders.
The authors of the nine chapters in the present book volume took on this challenge of confronting the duality of not only including the past as we look to the future, but also the duality of the critique of the field in the midst of exciting and significant progress in our knowledge and understanding of leadership in schools. In the first section of the book (Chapters 2, 3 and 4), the authors examine the interplay of educational leadership research and theory as it relates to reform in schools, especially as it relates to serving historically underserved populations globally. In section 2 (Chapters 5 and 6), the authors highlight the importance of methodological considerations in school leadership research as a means to understand theory and practice as well as providing interesting avenues that point to multiple exciting future possibilities through rely ing on current innovations noted within the chapters. Section 3, (Chapters 7 and 8) examine the research and practice of school leadership preparation, especially as it relates to university?district partnerships and non?traditional school settings. And in the final chapter, (Chapter 9), our capstone contributor provides a means to link the present volume with the past writings on these topics, while also providing a lens to view the exciting possibilities and promises of the multiple futures of the field of educational leadership research and practice.
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- Publisher Information Age Publishing
- Publication Date September 2015
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781681232768
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- Primary Price 50 USD
- Pages262
- Publish StatusPublished
- SeriesInternational Research on School Leadership
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