Educational Leadership Policies and Practices: Voices from the Developing Countries
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Author Description
Educational Leadership Policies and Practices highlights voices from different developing countries that echo the need for sustainable, enabling, and liberating educational leadership that will stimulate ideas and ideals to usher new ways of looking at old problems of educational leadership.The chapters, largely, are based on original empirical field research, learnings drawn from applied research, and study of organizational learning. In addition, they are based on policy analysis and analytical deconstruction of the mind-boggling nuances of pedagogical, transformational, or transforming leadership theories.This book will be of interest to policy makers, researchers, educators, PhD/MPhil and graduate students, principals, headteachers, coordinators, heads of departments, and training schools and colleges across developing countries and beyond.
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
This book investigates the necessity for sustainable, enabling, and liberating educational leadership models tailored to the specific socio-economic contexts of developing nations. Author Jan-e-Alam Khaki synthesizes empirical field research, applied studies, and policy analysis to challenge traditional leadership paradigms. By deconstructing existing pedagogical and transformational theories, the text provides a framework for addressing systemic educational challenges through localized, innovative leadership practices.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Empirical field research conducted within various developing nations
- Analytical deconstruction of transformational and pedagogical leadership theories
- Case studies on organizational learning in educational settings
- Policy analysis regarding the implementation of sustainable leadership practices
Scope Limits
- The text focuses primarily on the context of developing countries and may not address the specific administrative nuances of highly industrialized or Western-centric educational systems.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Experts identify this work as a valuable resource for policymakers and graduate-level researchers seeking to understand the intersection of global leadership theory and local implementation. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which serves as a foundational text for those studying educational administration in non-Western contexts.
Page Count:
274
Publication Date:
2023-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0190706449
ISBN-13:
9780190706449
Education
Pedagogy
Educational leadership
Developing Countries
Organizational Learning