This study examines the emotionality of educational leadership by exploring administrators’ recall of key junctures in their lives as leaders, and was designed to begin to investigate the associations between an individual’s philosophy of leadership and his/her experience of emotionality in leadership. Employing an interview method, the study uses stimulated recall of emotional experiences asso...

OBJECTIVE This article documents the results of ongoing summative program evaluation of a suite of postgraduate courses at The University of Western Australia designed to enhance the educational capabilities, academic leadership and scholarly output of health professionals. METHODS Commencing students were invited to participate in this descriptive, longitudinal study that surveyed students a...

The first edition of this volume, published in 1997, was titled Managing People in Education. The addition of ‘leading’ to the title in the second and third editions illustrates the growing significance of this concept, notably in England, where a National College for School Leadership (our emphasis) was opened in November 2000. The inclusion of both terms in the title of this third edition sig...

BACKGROUND Outstanding leadership is one of the important and vital concepts in management and educational leadership debates especially in educational organizations such as universities. Thus, effective educational leadership and adopting an appropriate tool to assess leadership in education are crucial in these institutions. The present study was conducted to develop an instrument for measuri...

Transformative educational leadership portends, by the implication of its name, a substantive change in the very definition and implementation of traditional school leadership. It assumes an oppositional stance to the hegemonic forms of school leadership and promises a reformed, if indeed not a totally reconstructed, definition of this social construction. Implied in any notion of transformativ...

As educational institutions increase attention toward the preparation of future citizen leaders, the assessment of the efficacy of these interventions must increase in sophistication as well. Socially responsible leadership, and the social change model of leadership development from which it is derived, are among the most applied conceptual frameworks informing leadership education. Educational...

Principals' technology leadership is strongly correlated with teachers’ integration of educational technology, and technology leadership is necessary for effective utilization of technology in schooling. The article describes a study that empirically investigated teachers’ perceptions of elementary schools principals’ technology leadership practice in seven cities in Taiwan for understanding th...