Antonios Kafa – författare

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Crisis Leadership and Management in Education examines the critical role of school leaders during crisis in K-12 education, spotlighting the evolving theoretical trends and practical approaches to crises around the world with contributions from international scholars. This handbook dives deep into the essence of crisis leadership and management, tailoring its insights specifically for educators, policymakers, researchers, and school leaders. The handbook is organized in three sections: firstly, Conceptualizing School Leadership During Times of Crisis explores theorizations of crisis and critically examines different models of leadership and their applicability during crises, focussing on the crucial issue of equity. Next, Practices for Leading During Crises develops insights into established practices for leading during crisis, drawing from empirical based findings around crisis preparedness, crisis plans, and crisis management teams; finally, Understanding Leadership During Different Types of Crises provides a typology of crises including natural disasters, school violence, health emergencies, death/suicide and refugees/migration, offering specialized knowledge and guidance tailored to the unique characteristics of these crises within schools. The comprehensive selection of contributions will empower school leaders with the skills and knowledge needed to lead effectively during crises and to enhance organizational resilience to avoid, withstand and recover from crises.

This book discusses school leaders’ ability to use digital technologies successfully through specific approaches and techniques. It also discusses the technological challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the obstacles derived from the lack of digital capacity of school leaders in various contexts. The work addresses school leaders’ experiences, confidence, competence, skills, and practices to use digital technologies effectively. Also, it explores how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced school leaders’ role in establishing effective processes towards educational digital transformation, and provides further knowledge as part of school leaders’ digital professional development aspect.The book draws information and knowledge from the thematic areas of technology and school leadership in educational practice and includes both conceptual and empirical information on autonomous and less autonomous educational systems (centralized and decentralized education systems). Overall, this edited book fills the gap with information on the connection between school leadership and technology, as an aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in school organizations.