Colin W. Evers is Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research focuses on decision making in educational administration, the distribution of leadership in organizational contexts, links between emotion and leadership, and developing a view of educational leadership as critical learning.Gabriele Lakomski is Professor Emeritus in the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests cover leadership, organizational learning and culture, neuroscience and the emotions, the relation between cognition and emotion, and implications for rational decision-making in organizational contexts.

• Part I: Philosophical Foundations 1. Naturalism, Educational Administration, and Leadership: An Overview 2. Methodological Individualism and Educational Leadership 3. Leader Cognition in Context Part II: The Social Context of Leadership 4. Leadership, Evidence, and Inference 5. Developing Leadership – From Uncertainty to Social Epistemology 6. Learning Leadership Through Problem-Solving Trajectories 7. Constraints, Structure, and Reasoning Part III: Individuals in Context – Reason, Emotion, Organization 8. Naturalizing Emotions 9. The Role of Emotion in Educational Decision-Making 10. A Naturalistic View of Organizations

Colin W. Evers is Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research focuses on decision making in educational administration, the distribution of leadership in organizational contexts, links between emotion and leadership, and developing a view of educational leadership as critical learning.Gabriele Lakomski is Professor Emeritus in the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests cover leadership, organizational learning and culture, neuroscience and the emotions, the relation between cognition and emotion, and implications for rational decision-making in organizational contexts.

• Part I: Philosophical Foundations 1. Naturalism, Educational Administration, and Leadership: An Overview 2. Methodological Individualism and Educational Leadership 3. Leader Cognition in Context Part II: The Social Context of Leadership 4. Leadership, Evidence, and Inference 5. Developing Leadership – From Uncertainty to Social Epistemology 6. Learning Leadership Through Problem-Solving Trajectories 7. Constraints, Structure, and Reasoning Part III: Individuals in Context – Reason, Emotion, Organization 8. Naturalizing Emotions 9. The Role of Emotion in Educational Decision-Making 10. A Naturalistic View of Organizations

Colin W. Evers is Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research focuses on decision making in educational administration, the distribution of leadership in organizational contexts, links between emotion and leadership, and developing a view of educational leadership as critical learning.Gabriele Lakomski is Professor Emeritus in the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests cover leadership, organizational learning and culture, neuroscience and the emotions, the relation between cognition and emotion, and implications for rational decision-making in organizational contexts.

• Part I: Philosophical Foundations 1. Naturalism, Educational Administration, and Leadership: An Overview 2. Methodological Individualism and Educational Leadership 3. Leader Cognition in Context Part II: The Social Context of Leadership 4. Leadership, Evidence, and Inference 5. Developing Leadership – From Uncertainty to Social Epistemology 6. Learning Leadership Through Problem-Solving Trajectories 7. Constraints, Structure, and Reasoning Part III: Individuals in Context – Reason, Emotion, Organization 8. Naturalizing Emotions 9. The Role of Emotion in Educational Decision-Making 10. A Naturalistic View of Organizations