Why Context Matters in Educational Leadership: A New Theoretical Understanding
About this ebook
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.
About the author
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.
