Education Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 911
Special Issue Editors
Interests: educational leadership; school leaders; research-engaged cultures; collaborative networks for resilience and innovation; educational systems
Interests: educational administration; educational leadership; school development; educational systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In this Special Issue titled “Education Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities”, we seek to explore the broad spectrum of challenges and innovations in educational leadership, reflecting the diverse and dynamic nature of this field. As educational environments grow increasingly complex, the role of leadership becomes more crucial in navigating these intricacies, fostering effective collaborations, and leveraging technological advancements like artificial intelligence. Societies face multiple challenges to do with anthropocentric environmental changes, global education reforms and shifts in employment patterns.
The aim of this Special Issue is to examine the challenges and opportunities for scholarship in the educational leadership terrain.
Suggested, but by no means an exhaustive list of themes, includes:
- Evolving roles in educational leadership;
- Enacting traditional leadership model, such as distributed leadership in less-explored contexts;
- The impact of school networks and partnerships on leadership or understanding the leadership of networks and partnerships;
- Strategic use of AI and technology in leadership processes, or leadership of digital technology implementation;
- Comparative leadership practices across different educational systems;
- Leadership in the context of human-induced environmental changes;
- Leading schools to prepare students for future, shifting employment challenges;
- New ways of collaboration that enable school leaders to develop and flourish;
- New theoretical or methodological approaches to studying educational leadership.
This Special Issue seeks to provide a broad array of perspectives from different educational settings and to provide readers insights into how educational leaders can effectively address current challenges while preparing for future opportunities.
Dr. David Godfrey
Prof. Dr. Metin Özkan
Dr. Lara Simielli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- educational leadership
- leadership development
- collaborative partnerships
- distributed leadership
- technology in leadership
- global education reforms
- networked leadership practices
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