Global Perspectives on Educational Leadership Reform: The Development and Preparation of Leaders of Learning and Learners of Leadership

This volume of Advances in Educational Administration:

focuses on education reform and professional development processes intended to prepare and develop prospective and practicing educational leaders into leadership positions.

examines cultural, political, legal, economic, and social justice issues that affect leaders while serving in the role of educational leader/learner.

examines the various ways in which educational leadership, politics, policy, and reform are interconnected.

focuses on the critical significance of transforming education leadership agendas if educational leaders are to truly change the face of how meaningful leadership development and preparation is planned and implemented for effectiveness.

introduces various frameworks for restructuring leadership and learning including the need for collaborative and community-based efforts for redesigning, planning, and implementing leadership development programs.

encourages interdisciplinary educational leaders to re-examine who they are as leaders of learning, as learners of leadership, and life-long learners.

Specific issues explored include: education reform, policy initiatives; adult learning; green school leadership; innovative programs for developing and preparing educational leaders; community-based leadership; retention of effective school leaders and teachers; inclusive school leadership; using community cultural values to create a positive working climate and environment; various issues affecting culturally relevant pedagogy; instructional and teacher leadership; and the politics of educational leadership.

A corollary purpose of this volume is to encourage a discourse that focuses on "out-of-the-box" approaches in preparing future school leaders to push the envelope of leadership practice. This includes, but is not limited to, successful university and school district partnerships, and practices and innovations around the preparation of leaders and learners. International contributors provide various rich perspectives to the leadership development and preparation phenomenon from the lens of empirical, historical, and conceptual designs and give voice to empowering leaders and learners at all levels of public schooling of educational leadership research, teaching, and learning.