Denise Mifsud, Ph.D. (2015), University of Stirling, is an Associate Fellow of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre of Educational Research at the University of Malta. She has published in several international top-rated journals, in addition to monographs and edited volumes, the most recent being The Positioning and Making of Female Professors: Pushing Career Advancement Open (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, co-edited with M. Murray).Paolo Landri is a Senior Researcher of the Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies at National Research Council in Italy (CNR-IRPPS). His most recent publication is Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration through Actor Network Theory (Routledge, 2020).

• Notes on Contributors1 Problematizing the Dominant Discourses and Policies of Educational Leadership within the Mediterranean BasinDenise Mifsud and Paolo Landri2 Social Justice and Education in the Maltese State School System: Some Political and Practical IssuesDenise Mifsud3 Challenges to Educational Leadership in IsraelDevorah Kalekin-Fishman4 The New Public Governance: Corporate Leadership in Spain’s Public Education SystemEnrique-Javier Díez-Gutiérrez5 School Leadership within a Centralized Education System: A Success Story from Cyprus through a Decade of ResearchPetros Pashiardis and Antonios Kafa6 Educational Leadership in Algeria: A Decisive Factor in the 2004 Higher Education ReformMohamed Miliani7 Digitally Equipped: Reshaping Educational Leadership and Management in ItalyPaolo Landri and Danilo Taglietti8 How Do Portuguese Principals Deal with Competing Demands? Issues of Bureaucracy, Performativity and DemocracyMaria Assunção Flores and Fernando Ilídio FerreiraIndex

Denise Mifsud, Ph.D. (2015), University of Stirling, is an Associate Fellow of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre of Educational Research at the University of Malta. She has published in several international top-rated journals, in addition to monographs and edited volumes, the most recent being The Positioning and Making of Female Professors: Pushing Career Advancement Open (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, co-edited with M. Murray).Paolo Landri is a Senior Researcher of the Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies at National Research Council in Italy (CNR-IRPPS). His most recent publication is Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration through Actor Network Theory (Routledge, 2020).

• Notes on Contributors1 Problematizing the Dominant Discourses and Policies of Educational Leadership within the Mediterranean BasinDenise Mifsud and Paolo Landri2 Social Justice and Education in the Maltese State School System: Some Political and Practical IssuesDenise Mifsud3 Challenges to Educational Leadership in IsraelDevorah Kalekin-Fishman4 The New Public Governance: Corporate Leadership in Spain’s Public Education SystemEnrique-Javier Díez-Gutiérrez5 School Leadership within a Centralized Education System: A Success Story from Cyprus through a Decade of ResearchPetros Pashiardis and Antonios Kafa6 Educational Leadership in Algeria: A Decisive Factor in the 2004 Higher Education ReformMohamed Miliani7 Digitally Equipped: Reshaping Educational Leadership and Management in ItalyPaolo Landri and Danilo Taglietti8 How Do Portuguese Principals Deal with Competing Demands? Issues of Bureaucracy, Performativity and DemocracyMaria Assunção Flores and Fernando Ilídio FerreiraIndex