Educational Leadership in Times of Crisis

Izhar Oplatka is Professor of Educational Administration and Leadership at The School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Oplatka’s research focuses on the lives and careers of school teachers and educational leaders, educational marketing, emotions, and the foundations of educational administration as a field of study.

• Chapter 1. The current scholarship about crisis management in organizations.- Section I: Insights from global/political crises.- Chapter 2. Abraham Lincoln.- Chapter 3. Winston Churchill.- Chapter 4. Charles de Gaulle.- Chapter 5. John Kennedy.- Section II: The military crisis in times of war.- Chapter 6. The Duke of Wellington.- Chapter 7. Alexander the Great.- Chapter 8. Elizabeth I.- Chapter 9. Napoleon Bonaparte.- Section III: Insights from economic crises.- Chapter 10. Theodore Roosevelt.- Chapter 11. Franklin D. Roosevelt.- Chapter 12. Margaret Thatcher.- Section IV: Conclusion.- Chapter 13. Towards a practical model to cope with an organizational crisis in our schools.