Educational leadership
Subtitle: global contexts and international comparisons
By: edited by Alexander W. Wiseman
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: International perspectives on education and society -- v. 11,
Publisher: Emerald
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bingley, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9781849506458
Subjects: Educational leadership; School management and organization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Leadership for innovative Omani schools in the 21st century: transforming principal identity through culturally contextualized training  -- Jan M. Westrick and Shirley J. Miske; title: The development and role of trust in educational leadership: a comparative study of U.S. and Ugandan school administrators  -- Pamela R. Hallam ... [et al.]; title: Tribalism and its consequences: a cancer infecting the corpus of educational leadership in many West African countries  -- Samba Moriba and Michael C. Edwards; title: Educational leadership in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria: a study of the perceptions of its impact on the acquired leadership skills of expatriate Nigerian postgraduates  -- Gerald I. Akata and Jasmine R. Renner; title: Antipodean perspectives on enhancing the quality of school leadership: views from Australia and New Zealand  -- Helen Wildy, Simon Clarke and Carol Cardno; title: Analyzing principal influence tactics from a cross-cultural perspective: do preferred influence tactics and targeted goals differ by national culture?  -- Ibrahim Duyar, Inayet Aydin and Zeki Pehlivan; title: Voices from two sides of the Atlantic: women's leadership in Finland and the United States  -- Eva Anneli Adams; title: Developing leaders among women religious in Africa  -- Mary Salvaterra ... [et al.]; title: Successful school principals in Australia and the US: findings from an international study  -- Rose M. Ylimaki ... [et al.]; title: Culture and school leadership in China: exploring school leaders' views of relationship- and rule-based governance  -- Wing-Wah Law; title: Comparisons between transformational leadership and the Confucian idea of transformation  -- Jingping Sun; title: Issues in educational administration in Mexico  -- José María García Garduño, Charles L. Slater and Gema López Gorosave; title: Is 'educational leadership' a national-contextual field of study? Some insights from an analysis of the field's major journals -- Izhar Oplatka and Audrey Addi-Raccah.