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E-book Education Leadership : Scoping, Perspectives and Future Trajectory
At a time in history when humanity has placed its trust in education to take on any challenge in the world and has, as a result, made massive investments in education, education leaves much to be desired. Whether in terms of supplying access for all in institutions of education, ensuring quality education for all, ensuring equity or equality in education or succeeding in achieving the outcomes and objectives laid out in the education project, there is a clear lack. As is stated in Chapter 2, backed up by ample citations of empirical studies proving the point, leadership in education institutions can make a significant, even pivotal, difference in the supply or lack of quality education and the achievement of education objectives and outcomes. In view of this critical factor in the education equation, it is commendable and heartening to see a new field of scholarly enquiry, education leadership, rising to the occasion. Such a scholarly field should then serve to guide practice regarding education leadership, resulting in ever-better education leadership. Being of recent origin, however, the field is still unstructured, amorphous and grossly unexplored. The result is that many scholars in cognate fields of scholarship – and even more so practitioners (that is, education leaders in schools) and students of both initial teacher education programmes and postgraduate programmes of education – are oblivious to the scope and promise of the field. Moreover, even scholars within the field often lack a panoptic view of the field and are not aware of the entire range of scholarship and their varied focus or promising ways to take the field forward. This book displays the scope and range of the emerging field of scholarship in education leadership and aims to identify key areas for the improvement of practice and for future research by means of chapters zooming in on various areas of research in the field, taking as a point of departure and as a base reference point a scoping exercise on literature on the teaching of education leadership.
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