Why Context Matters in Educational Leadership: A New Theoretical Understanding

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Colin Evers (University of New South Wales) Gabriele Lakomski (University of Melbourne, Australia.)

Why Context Matters in Educational Leadership

A New Theoretical Understanding

Colin Evers (University of New South Wales), Gabriele Lakomski (University of Melbourne, Australia.)

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Routledge
21 February 2022

Organisation & management of education

Why Context Matters in Educational Leadership: A New Theoretical Understanding is unique in the field of educational leadership studies. This book offers a systematic account of educational leadership from the perspective that context matters. It argues that studies of leadership in education can only progress if the importance of context is understood and presents context as a set of constraints under which leadership is exercised.

A theoretical book that offers at last three major challenges to dominant positions in the field in a systematic way, it provides a new, coherent, and more realistic way to think about leadership in context.

The chapters offer concrete steps for complex problem-solving in schools and will help schools tailor solutions to local constraints and circumstances.

Written by leading scholars Colin W. Evers and Gabriele Lakomski, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers working in the fields of education, educational administration and leadership.

By: Colin Evers (University of New South Wales), Gabriele Lakomski (University of Melbourne, Australia.)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032148830
ISBN 10: 1032148837
Pages: 186
Publication Date: 21 February 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I: Philosophical Foundations 1. Naturalism, Educational Administration, and Leadership: An Overview 2. Methodological Individualism and Educational Leadership 3. Leader Cognition in Context Part II: The Social Context of Leadership 4. Leadership, Evidence, and Inference 5. Developing Leadership – From Uncertainty to Social Epistemology 6. Learning Leadership Through Problem-Solving Trajectories 7. Constraints, Structure, and Reasoning Part III: Individuals in Context – Reason, Emotion, Organization 8. Naturalizing Emotions 9. The Role of Emotion in Educational Decision-Making 10. A Naturalistic View of Organizations

Colin W. Evers is Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research focuses on decision making in educational administration, the distribution of leadership in organizational contexts, links between emotion and leadership, and developing a view of educational leadership as critical learning. Gabriele Lakomski is Professor Emeritus in the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests cover leadership, organizational learning and culture, neuroscience and the emotions, the relation between cognition and emotion, and implications for rational decision-making in organizational contexts.