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Educational Leadership

Contemporary Theories, Principles, and Practices

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Editors:
  1. Donnie Adams

    1. Department of Educational Management, Planning and Policy, Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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  • Includes educational leadership and management theories and models in the 21st century
  • Includes international authors with deeply embedded understanding of educational leadership
  • Also management in schools’ context, based on engagement with context specific policies, practices and research

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Educational Leadership in the Twenty-First Century

    • Donnie Adams
    Pages 1-15

  3. Leadership for Learning in Schools in the Twenty-First Century

    • Ashley Yoon Mooi Ng
    Pages 17-37

  4. Distributed Instructional Leadership: The SHARE Model

    • Mohammad Noman
    Pages 39-55

  5. Authentic and Moral Leadership Practices in Schools

    • Lokman Mohd Tahir, Siti Nisrin Mohd Anis, Mohd Fadzli Ali
    Pages 57-70

  6. Servant Leadership: Operationalising an Oxymoron

    • Adrian Jarvis
    Pages 71-84

  7. Inclusive Leadership for Schools: Practices, Challenges, and Future Directions

    • Donnie Adams, Shaheera Hussain, King Lok Tan
    Pages 85-99

  8. Contextual Leadership: Characteristics and Practices

    • Tengku Faekah Tengku Ariffin, Suhaili Mohd Yusoff
    Pages 101-117

  9. Turnaround Leadership: Building the Sustainability of Schools

    • Sock Beei Yeap, Donnie Adams
    Pages 119-133

  10. System Leadership in Educational Context

    • Kenny S. L. Cheah
    Pages 135-149

  11. Technology Leadership for Schools in the Twenty-First Century

    • Yuting Zhang, Donnie Adams, Kenny S. L. Cheah
    Pages 151-165
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About this book

This book provides a rigorous grounding in contemporary educational leadership theories and their application to policy and practice globally across educational contexts. The book showcases contributions from authors with a deeply embedded understanding of educational leadership and in schools’ context. It will focus on major aspects of school leadership, including contemporary theories and models in the 21st century, the role of the principal, the work of senior and middle leaders, leadership, and student outcomes. Each chapter will engage with theory, policy, and practice, and draw on authors’ own research and with other empirical and conceptual sources.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Educational Management, Planning and Policy, Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Donnie Adams

About the editor

Dr. Donnie Adams obtained his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Universiti Malaya under the Bright Sparks scholarship and was awarded the Universiti Malaya’s Excellence Award 2016: PhD Completion in Less than 3 Years. He was recently awarded the Emerald Young Researcher Award 2021 by Emerald Publishing and Universiti Malaya’s Excellence Award for Community Engagement in 2019. He is Editor-in-Chief for the International Online Journal of Educational Leadership (IOJEL) and Editor for Cogent Education. He is actively involved in research and development work towards the area of inclusive school leadership and school-wide reformation of inclusive education agenda in Malaysia. He has led research projects with The British Council, ETH Zürich, The HEAD Foundation, UNICEF, Asian Universities Alliance, and Teach for Malaysia. Recently, he is listed by Britishpedia as one of the 'Successful People in Malaysia' in the field of Education.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Educational Leadership

  • Book Subtitle: Contemporary Theories, Principles, and Practices

  • Editors: Donnie Adams

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8494-7

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-8493-0Published: 22 December 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-8496-1Due: 22 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-8494-7Published: 21 December 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 165

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Management Education, Education, general, Educational Policy and Politics

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