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Educational Leadership

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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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Educational administration; Educational management; School leadership

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Educational leadership is defined as the quality and competence of exerting leading influence on educational organization members, teachers and faculty, students, and diverse stakeholders within and beyond certain educational organizations and settings toward the achievement of educational visions and goals. According to organizational levels, educational leadership can be classified as personal leadership, classroom-level leadership, school-level leadership (including preschools, K-12 schools, and higher institutes), and system-level leadership. According to performance style and rationale, educational leadership can be classified as instructional leadership, transformational leadership, distributed leadership, and teacher leadership. Leaders are tending to perform a complexity of diverse leadership styles. The term “educational leadership” also indicates graduate programs in higher education...

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  1. Department of Leadership in Education, College of Education and Human Development, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA

    Wenfan Yan

  2. University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA

    Yumei Han

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Correspondence to Wenfan Yan .

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Yan, W., Han, Y. (2018). Educational Leadership. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20928-9_2236

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