Handbook on Leadership in Education

Edited by Philip A. Woods, Professor of Educational Policy, Democracy and Leadership, Schools of Law and Education, University of Hertfordshire, Amanda Roberts, Visiting Lecturer, Schools of Law and Education, University of Hertfordshire, Meng Tian, Associate Professor in Educational Leadership, School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK and Howard Youngs, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

‘This Handbook provides fresh, comprehensive and compelling insights into educational leadership. In so doing, it gives the field the serious attention it deserves and so often lacks – probing its ontological, epistemological and conceptual foundations. As such, it provides an indispensable set of thinking tools for scholars and students.’

• Contents: Preface xviii 1 Introduction: leadership in education – an inherently fractured field? 1 Philip A. Woods, Amanda Roberts, Meng Tian and Howard Youngs PART I CONCEPTUAL ISSUES CONCERNING LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION Amanda Roberts, Meng Tian, Philip A. Woods and Howard Youngs 2 Conceptualising the ‘leadership’ in leadership in education 16 Linda Evans 3 Re-conceptualising the “education” in educational leadership and management 30 Steve Myran 4 Leadership and management: a relevant distinction for leadership in education? 45 Deirdre Torrance, Alison Mitchell, Julie Harvie, Margery McMahon and Christine Forde 5 Embodied leadership: a perspective on reciprocal body movement 60 Helen Payne and Pauliina Jääskeläinen 6 Leading practices and middle leadership in education 74 Peter Grootenboer and Christine Edwards-Groves 7 Teacher leadership 89 David Frost 8 Student leadership: working within, between, and against institutional structures in education 102 Alison Cook-Sather and Ebony Graham 9 Accountability, autonomy and organisational practice: how principals of successful schools enact education policy for improvement 115 Qing Gu and Aly Colman 10 A complexity approach to leading in education: lessons from group analysis 129 Kevin Flinn 11 Leadership across partnerships and networks 143 Toby Greany 12 Ethics and leadership in education 157Christopher Branson13 Transactional, transformational, transformative leadership: a journey towards equity and emancipation 171Carolyn M. ShieldsPART II SOCIAL JUSTICE AND LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATIONMeng Tian, Amanda Roberts, Philip A. Woods and Howard Youngs14 The “beyond” spaces of social justice leadership 190Khalid H. Arar, Miguel A. Guajardo and Ira Bogotch15 Leadership development for social justice 205Deirdre Torrance, Christine Forde, Fiona King and Jamila Razzaq16 Democratic leadership and education: the case of ‘learners lead’ 219Carolyn (Callie) Grant17 Gender and leadership in education 233Rachel McNae18 Green leadership in education 249Kimberly Joy Rushing and Lisa A. W. Kensler19 Trade unions, context and leadership in education 265Martin Thrupp20 Crises and traumas: challenges for leadership in education 277Deniz Örücü21 Challenging colonial constructions of leadership: early childhood education in Aotearoa (New Zealand) 291Jenny Ritchie22 Indigenous leadership in education: footprints of the past – transitioning to the future 305Angus Macfarlane, Sonja Macfarlane and Melissa Derby23 Socially just educational administration and leadership in Islamic cultures 319Eugenie A. Samier24 Leadership in education: perspectives in German-speaking cultures 331Pierre Tulowitzki and Ella Grigoleit25 Leadership in education: Spanish perspectives on social justice 345Patricia Silva, Serafín Antúnez and Charles L. Slater26 How rural principals motivate teacher professional learning in unfavourable environments: a mixed-methods study in China 359Shengnan Liu and Daming FengPART III RESEARCHING AND DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATIONHoward Youngs, Amanda Roberts, Meng Tian and Philip A. Woods27 Leadership and knowledge construction in a networked perspective 379Nóra Révai and Romuald Normand28 Educational leadership research methods: a social reconstruction 394Ira Bogotch29 Using arts-based and embodied methods to research leadership in education 410Suzanne Culshaw30 Advances in reviewing and mapping research on educational leadership and management 424Jasna Kovačević and Alisa Mujkić31 Indigenous ways of developing leadership in education: creating a rights-based organizational consciousness 445Peter Anderson, Angela Baeza Peña, Sun Yee Yip and Zane M. Diamond32 The emergence and cultivation of leadership within early childhood education 458Leanne Gibbs and Frances Press33 Developing leadership for school education: constructions of system leadership 474Alison Mitchell, Deirdre Torrance, Christine Forde, Julie Harvie and Margery McMahon34 Developing leadership in higher education 491Alan Floyd35 Evaluating leadership in education 503Livia Jesacher-Roessler and Esther Dominique Klein36 Disrupted leadership in education 517Howard Youngs, Amanda Roberts, Meng Tian and Philip A. WoodsIndex 537