Educational Management Administration & Leadership
Scope & Guideline
Advancing educational leadership through rigorous research.
Introduction
Aims and Scopes
- Educational Leadership Practices:
Explores various styles and practices of leadership in schools, including transformational, instructional, and distributed leadership, and their impacts on educational outcomes. - Teacher Leadership and Professional Development:
Investigates the role of teacher leadership in professional learning communities, emphasizing how teacher agency and leadership contribute to school improvement. - Impact on Student Outcomes:
Examines the relationship between school leadership and student achievement, focusing on how leadership practices influence educational effectiveness. - Cultural and Contextual Factors:
Analyzes how cultural and contextual variables affect leadership practices and educational outcomes, particularly in diverse and international settings. - Gender and Leadership:
Addresses issues of gender equity in educational leadership, exploring the experiences and challenges faced by women and minority leaders. - Crisis Management and Resilience:
Investigates leadership responses to crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and the strategies employed to maintain educational quality and support staff and students.
Trending and Emerging
- Distributed Leadership:
A significant trend is the exploration of distributed leadership models, emphasizing collaborative decision-making and shared responsibilities among staff. - Impact of Technology on Leadership:
With the increase in remote and hybrid learning environments, there is growing research on how digital tools and technologies reshape leadership practices in education. - Well-being of Educational Leaders:
Emerging studies are focusing on the mental health and well-being of school leaders, especially in the context of stress and burnout exacerbated by crises like the pandemic. - Social Justice and Equity in Leadership:
There is an increased focus on how educational leadership can promote social justice and equity, particularly in diverse and underrepresented communities. - Teacher Agency and Empowerment:
Research is trending towards understanding how empowering teachers as leaders affects their agency, job satisfaction, and overall school climate. - Crisis Leadership and Adaptive Strategies:
The importance of adaptive leadership strategies in managing crises is gaining traction, highlighting the need for flexibility and resilience in educational contexts.
Declining or Waning
- Traditional Hierarchical Leadership Models:
There is a noticeable decline in studies focused on traditional, top-down leadership models, as the field increasingly emphasizes collaborative and distributed leadership approaches. - Behaviorist Approaches to Leadership Training:
Research that strictly adheres to behaviorist frameworks for leadership training is becoming less common, with a growing preference for holistic and context-sensitive training methods. - Single-Country Studies:
The prevalence of studies focused solely on educational leadership within a single national context is decreasing, as researchers adopt more comparative and international perspectives. - Focus on Administrative Tasks:
There is a diminishing emphasis on the administrative functions of school leaders, as the discourse shifts towards leadership's influence on teaching and learning outcomes. - Descriptive Studies of Leadership Practices:
The journal is moving away from purely descriptive studies of leadership practices towards more analytical approaches that assess the impact of these practices on educational change.
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