Emotions and Educational Leadership

Synonyms

Educational leadership; Emotions; Feminist and critical approach; Psychological approach; Sociocultural approach

Introduction

In the last two decades, there has been growing research challenging the binary between reason/emotion embedded in mainstream literature on educational leadership. For many years, emotions were characterized as irrational, and as such, they were not considered to have a legitimate place in the workplace (Ashforth and Humphrey 1995). But research on emotions in the workplace, including educational organizations, started to flourish in the early 1990s after it gradually became evident that emotions were influential in decision-making, motivation and behaviors in organizations, administration, and leadership. Although the importance of researching emotions for understanding educational leaders is realized, the literature on emotions and educational leadership is still limited (Berkovich and Eyal 2015). In addition, there is still considerable conceptual...