Educational leadership

 

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An Emerald mission in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Educational leadership with vision is critical to academic success for all students; done well, it positively affects staff and student morale, performance and outcomes. What are the problems affecting leaders? How can you structure your decision making and be a better leader? How can you help your institution to be intrinsically inclusive and support the leaders of tomorrow?
Together with some of our partners and authors, we’ve been exploring this subject.

We’re searching for more authors to publish with us in the field of education, we’d love to hear from you.

This mission supports our Quality education for all goal

 

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Educational leadership

Listen to this insightful discussion on school system leadership with three inspiring educational leaders.

Discussing school and district leadership in the face of the pandemic, school to school collaboration and networking partnerships, building support systems, capacity building, and much more.

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Author thoughts

Some of our authors have been sharing their research in different ways; check out our chatty podcasts, blogs or a presentation video to find out more.

Open access publishing 101

In this webinar amongst other subjects, we’ll cover the educational leadership research landscape: Who is researching in the educational leadership field? Where is it being conducted? Where does it get published?

Understanding decision-making in educational contexts

Stephanie Chitpin, Professor of Leadership and Educational Theory at the University of Ottawa in Canada discusses how leaders make decisions in institutions. Should they follow their gut feelings and intuition, or should they partake in critical decision-making?

Educational leadership in challenging times

Carol A Mullen from the School of Education, Virginia Tech in the USA makes the case for social justice leadership as an essential competency for influencing school culture, teacher development, and student learning.  

Winner of the ICSEI/JPCC 2021 Innovation Award

Rethinking professional collaboration and agency in a post-pandemic era

Paul Campbell

Research exploring the role of professional collaboration and agency during the global COVID-19 pandemic and possible lessons for the future from the perspective of a teacher, leader and postgraduate researcher.

> View the infographic  |  > See the full article

What's in the infographic?

  • The COVID-19 pandemic placed teachers and school leaders as education’s front-line responders.
  • They ensured continuity of learning and the well-being of students and families.
  • The pandemic, in places, forced a redistribution of power, enabling teachers and school leaders to re-evaluate priorities and make decisions about how best to support their communities.

What can we learn from how professional collaboration and the capacity to exercise agency were manifested throughout the pandemic?

Results from this study, using Scotland and Hong Kong as contexts of study, revealed...

Professional collaboration that enables responsive approaches to emerging community needs requires critical reflection on the forms it takes, the drivers behind it, and the influences on it

  • The pandemic created locally responsive and diverse approaches to curriculum and teaching methods
  • There was a decrease in models favouring performativity and standardisation
  • There was an increase in teachers and school leaders designing their own forms of collaboration for purposes and goals determined by the results of their self-evaluation, and reflection on community needs
  • Professional expertise and community knowledge in decision-making had a positive impact
  • Teachers and leaders with greater agency were able to make more informed decisions, develop greater professional capital and build an even more sophisticated understanding of their professional identity and self-e­fficacy
  • Collaboration thrived when relationships and trust were emphasised and commonalities were sought across language used, organisational cultures and social systems at play

This review won the ICSEI/JPCC Innovation Award 2021

Teachers, school leaders and education systems are key to building better societies, but to achieve these laudable goals, broader consideration of the systemic structures and mechanisms that frame their work is required.

Rethinking professional collaboration and agency in a post-pandemic era
Professional Capital and Community
P. Campbell (2020) DOI: 10.1108/JPCC-06-2020-0033

Related books

Some of our authors have been investigating how to teach through disruption in the modern world. You are invited to see some of their research, a taster chapter of each book can be accessed here.

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Related journal articles

 

Exploring the current context for Professional Learning Networks, the conditions for their success, and research needs moving forwards

Chris Brown
Emerald Open Research

https://emeraldopenresearch.com/articles/1-1

Can academic leadership competencies have effect on students' cognitive, skill and affective learning outcomes? Higher education perspective

Omaymah Radwan, Simin Ghavifekr, Ahmad Zabidi Abdul Razak 
Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JARHE-05-2020-0144/full/html

Health implications of job-related stress, motivation and satisfaction in higher education faculty and administrators

Denelle Mohammed, Edrea Chan, Rezwan Ahmad, Aleksandar Dusic, Cheryl Boglarsky, Patrick Blessinger, Rana Zeine
Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JARHE-04-2018-0056/full/html
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