Educational Leadership and Management for Quality: Past, Present and Future
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 14685
Special Issue Editors
Interests: early childhood education; educational leadership and management; education policy; curriculum and pedagogy; teacher professional development
Interests: educational leadership; educational effectiveness; organisational learning; school improvement; teacher professional development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The terms “leadership” and “management” are sometimes used interchangeably. Many examples in the literature and research suggest that leadership concerns an organisation’s mission, vision, strategy, direction, and transformation. In contrast, management is concerned with implementing a school’s mission, vision, and operation, ensuring the organisation is run effectively and efficiently to achieve its goals. The importance of leadership and management in the processes related to quality education is unceasingly at the centre of discussion. Various conceptual models have been proposed for the study of quality leadership and management in the past few decades. A voluminous body of work in leadership theory, research, and practice continues to grow yearly.
To appreciate the changing nature of quality leadership and management, we must understand the various paradigms that have evolved over the years and the theoretical lenses that have shaped the education landscape. The study of quality leadership and management is more complex and dynamic, associated with the movement of education reforms globally and locally. Many current and emerging societal issues are turning leadership boundaries into frontiers. Right around the corner, the Fourth Industrial Revolution represents a fundamental change in how we live, work, and relate to one another. Education institutions are crucial to managing the possibilities and challenges ahead in the future of striking societal shifts. Quality leadership and management must reflect the demand for lifelong learning to cope with technological changes in artificial intelligence and digitalization.
In this Special Issue, we welcome work from a broad range of international contexts that examine quality leadership and management in all educational stages, from early childhood education to higher education and vocational training. We wish to invite researchers, scholars, and educators to offer either theoretical or empirical original contributions. Articles that employ various disciplines and methodologies are welcomed equally. We would greatly appreciate the work of those who offer new insights into and/or reflections on how quality leadership and management in education is approached within the local contours of social-cultural–historical understandings and provide conceptual, political, and/or practical implications with relevance for the international scholarship in quality leadership and management around the world.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Dora Ho
Dr. James Ko
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- education reform
- leadership development
- leadership paradigm
- organizational learning
- quality education
- school improvement
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