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Internationalisation of Educational Administration and Leadership Curriculum

Studies in Educational Administration

Series Editors: Gaëtane Jean-Marie and Ann E. Lopez

Studies in Educational Administration presents monographs and edited collections along the broad themes of educational leadership, management and administration.

The series presents research conducted across a diverse range of contexts and locations. Proposals are invited for authored or edited books from scholars in all stages of their careers for work that will help us to advance the educational administration field and will be of use to both researchers and school administrators and teachers.

Orly Shapira-Lishchinsky (ed), International Aspects of Organizational Ethics in Educational Systems

Alison Taysum and Khalid Arar (eds), Turbulence, Empowerment and Marginalized Groups in International Education Governance Systems

Izhar Oplatka and Khalid Arar (eds), Emotion Management And Feelings In Teaching And Educational Leadership

Khalid Arar, Jeffrey S. Brooks and Ira Bogotch (eds), Education, Immigration And Migration: Policy, Leadership And Praxis For A Changing World

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Internationalisation of Educational Administration and Leadership Curriculum: Voices and Experiences from the ‘Peripheries’

Edited by

Eugenie A. Samier

University of Strathclyde, UK

Eman S. ElKaleh

Zayed University, UAE

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Waheed Hammad

Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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About the Editors

Eugenie A. Samier's research concentrates on administrative philosophy and theory, interdisciplinary foundations and theories of administration, and comparative international educational administration, contributing also to public administration and management studies. She has been a guest researcher, lecturer and visiting professor at a number of universities in Europe, North America and the Arabian Gulf. Her publications include book chapters and articles on many aspects of organisation studies, administration, policy, leadership and research approaches, using primarily a humanistic framework, focussing on context, ethics and psycho-social factors, more recently postcolonial critiques and Islamic principles, values and practices. She has published several collections with Routledge and Springer, and has contributed to handbooks, and serves on the boards of several journals. She also worked as a public sector consultant for a number of years on a broad variety of projects including legislation development, organisational reviews, board development, and department restructuring and redesign.

Waheed Hammad is Associate Professor of Educational Administration and Leadership in the College of Education at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman and Damietta University, Egypt. He previously held a lecturing post at King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. He received his PhD. from the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, UK. Upon completion of his PhD. studies, he was offered a postdoctoral visiting fellowship at the same institution, during which he had the opportunity to work as a member of the tutoring team on the Egyptian Educators Programme in the academic year 2009–2010. He is currently member of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society (BELMAS) and the Gulf Comparative Education Society (GCES). He has published in international and local journals on a variety of research topics including school decision-making, educational decentralisation, leadership challenges, leadership preparation, in addition to systematic reviews of educational administration and leadership research in the Arab region. His international publication outlets include Educational Administration Quarterly; Educational Management, Administration & Leadership; School Leadership & Management, International Journal of Leadership in Education; and Compare. His current research interests include educational administration and leadership, instructional supervision, teachers and principals' professional development, and systematic research reviews.

Eman S. ElKaleh is a Lecturer of Management and Leadership and Senior Administrator at Zayed University, United Arab Emirates. Before that, she held different administrative positions at UAE University and was a Lecture of Management and Leadership at University of Wollongong Dubai. Eman holds a Master of Business Administration from University of Wollongong and a PhD in Management, Leadership and Policy from the British University in Dubai in association with Birmingham University, UK. Her research interests, publications, and book collections revolve around leadership from Islamic and cross-cultural perspectives, curriculum development, indigenous research and teaching leadership from critical and cross-cultural approaches. She serves as a reviewer for a number of international peer-reviewed journals and regularly conducts reviews for international and national conferences and research awards. Eman has been a keynote speaker and guest lecturer at the Middle Middle East, North Africa, South Asia (MENASA) National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Conference, Oxford Brookes University, Humboldt University of Berlin and a number of universities in the Middle East. She is the recipient of the 2015 Academic Excellence Award by Dubai International Academic City and has served as the Chair of Professional Development at the MENASA NASPA Advisory Board for two years.

About the Contributors

Aisha Salim Ali Al-Harthi is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of the Education Foundations and Administration (DEFA) at the College of Education in Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. She received her PhD from the Pennsylvania State University (US). Her research interests include the following areas: distance education, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), cultural issues, learner self-regulation, learner characteristics, learning strategies, vocational secondary education, and educational leadership and entrepreneurship. She publishes in both distance education and educational leadership journals and leads/ participates in many funded research projects.

Kadir Beycioğlu is an Associate Professor of Educational Administration at Dokuz Eylul University, Buca Faculty of Education, in the Department of Educational Sciences, Izmir, Turkey. His study topics are mainly on educational change, school development and educational leadership. He is also interested in the ethical use of information and communication technology (ICT) in education. He is a member of the International Study of Principal Preparation (ISPP) project and International School Leadership Development Network – Social Justice Leadership Strand by British Educational Leadership, Management & Administration Society (BELMAS) and University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA). He has published several articles in leading international journals. He has also acted as guest editor for some international journals and books and has published a number of book chapters. Dr Beycioglu is the (founding) editor of the Research in Educational Administration & Leadership (REAL, a journal by Turkish Educational Administration Society) and has been serving as a member of the editorial board or as reviewer for some leading international journals. He has been a member of the European Educational Research Association, British Educational Leadership, Management & Administration Society, and the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management.

Kostas Dimopoulos is Professor in the Department of Social and Educational Policy (University of Peloponnese). He has served as vice president of the Institute of Education Policy (national agency supervised by the Ministry of Education responsible for education planning in primary and secondary education). His current research interests concern the analysis of education programmes of various forms and levels, as well as understanding how the Greek school works under the current socio-political circumstances. He has written 98 articles and conference papers, as well as two books on these issues. Among the international journals he has published are: International Journal of Learning, Educational Studies, International Journal of Leadership in Education, Leadership & Policy in Schools and The Curriculum Journal. His published work has been cited by hundreds of peers from 48 different countries around the world. Finally, Prof. Dimopoulos has participated (as member of the working group or as coordinator) in 15 national and 17 European R&D projects while since 2008 he is a member of the International Evaluation Panel in the area of Education Studies of FCT (Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia) supervised by the Portuguese Ministry of Higher Education and Research.

Éliane Dulude is a Professor of Educational Administration at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada. Her main research interests are educational policy and policy implementation, organisational, curriculum and instructional reforms, and their impact on practices. Recently, she has focussed on the intersection of accountability systems, data-use and equity to gain a better understanding of the complexity, challenges and contradictions they represent for different actors in their daily work. She worked as a consultant in the private and public sectors with organisations like the National Ministry of Education of Luxemburg, the headquarters of Bombardier Aerospace and the University of Montreal. Her experience allows her to provide expertise to policy officials and administrators on strategic planning and implementation issues related to new educational innovations as well as coaching teachers in diverse contexts on subjects such as motivation, instructional methods, course planning and assessment.

Frederick Ebot Ashu is a Lecturer of Educational Foundation and Administration at the University of Buea and President of the Cameroon Council for Education Leadership and Management Society (CCELMS). Prior to this, he was a Lecturer of Philosophy of Social Science and Ethics in Research and Research Methods in Education at the University of Birmingham and a Senior Research Officer for 12 years at Community Advice and Support Services (CAASS, UK) where he researched and taught courses on: system reform and system leadership; community leadership; school and organisational leadership; school leaders leadership. He has pioneered projects across the United Kingdom and Cameroon in these domains and presented at a number of conferences, given guest lectures and worked in consultancies in Cameroon and abroad. He has published in a number of journals and authored nine books and has held a Commonwealth Professional Fellowship. His most recent academic research is about the effectiveness of school leadership and management development in Cameroon. He is the founding editor of the Educational Leadership and Management Studies (ELMS) journal funded by the Association of the Commonwealth Universities.

Emre Er is an Assistant Professor in the Yildiz Technical University's Faculty of Education, İstanbul, Turkey, where he teaches organisational change management, educational leadership and social network analysis. He received the best doctoral dissertation award by the Educational Administration Research and Development Association and holds a Bachelor in Chemistry Education. His research area is mainly organisational change, social network theory and interpersonal relationships in schools, and is currently examining the social network patterns for understanding informal leadership in schools. He has published a number of articles in international journals.

Ulrika Haake is Professor of Education and Director of Umeå School of Sport Sciences at Umeå University, Sweden. She is a leader of the research area Leadership, Organization and Working Life at the Department of Education, and she is also convenor for the Swedish network of researchers in the area of Pedagogy for Working Life. She has leadership experiences, for example, Chairman of the Faculty Board and Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences at Umeå University. Haake completed her doctoral research in 2004 with the thesis Leadership making in the academy: On the discursive identity development of departmental heads. Afterwards, she has several publications within the area of leadership, management and steering within higher education. Also, questions of gender and gender equality in higher education institutions and in relation to other areas of working life, such as the police organisation, are of great interest to Ulrika Haake.

Ali Çağatay Kılınç is an Associate Professor of Educational Administration at Karabuk University Faculty of Letters Department of Educational Sciences, Karabuk, Turkey. His research topics are mainly on educational leadership, school development and organisational behaviour. He has published a number of articles in international journals including Education and Science, Educational Studies: Theory and Practice and the Alberta Journal of Educational Research. He has also published a number of book chapters and participated in a range of national and international conferences on educational management and leadership. Dr Kılınç has been serving as reviewer for leading national and international journals and is also a member of editorial or referee boards.

Christos Koutsampelas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Educational Policy of the University of Peloponnese. He holds a BSc degree in Economics, an MSc degree in International Economics and Finance (2004) and a PhD in Economics (2009), awarded by Athens University of Economics and Business. His scientific interests revolve around measuring and understanding socio-economic and educational inequalities, as well as assessing public policy. He has been involved in several research programmes, published articles in peer-reviewed academic journals and collective volumes, served as reviewer in academic journals and co-authored a large number of policy reports published by the European Commission.

Peter Milley is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada, where he is also Director of the Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services. Dr Milley brings significant practical experience in leadership development, policy research, and adult and workplace learning from a successful career in the federal public service in Canada. His recent books include Educational Administration and Leadership Identity Formation (co-edited with E.A. Samier, Routledge 2020) and International Perspectives on Maladministration in Education (co-edited with E.A. Samier, Routledge 2018). Other examples of recent studies include articles on maladministration in education (Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 2016), the distorting micro-level effects of neoliberalism on university students and administrators (Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy 2016) and the implications for the work of evaluators of an increasingly politicised public administration (Canadian Journal of Evaluation 2015).

Evangelia Papaloi received a PhD with a cross-disciplinary focus on Education Sciences, Social Organisational Psychology, and Adult Learning and Development from the University of Toulouse II (France). She works as an Adjunct Lecturer at post-graduate courses in Educational Management at various universities in Greece (Hellenic Open University, University of Thessaly, University of the Peloponnese, University of Western Macedonia). She is a research associate and a trainer at various public research institutes and training centres in Greece and has conducted cross-disciplinary researches in the area of organisational behaviour, educational leadership, leadership ethics, social justice, social inclusion, stereotypes, etc. She serves as a reviewer at the Academy of Management Conference in Organisational Behaviour (OB) and in Organisational Development and Change (ODC) departments, and she is at the editorial board of the international journal Business Ethics and Leadership (BEL). She has published papers in scientific journals and has written chapters in collective volumes both in Greece and abroad (Cambridge Scholars).

Bev Rogers is a Lecturer in Leadership and Management at Flinders University in South Australia. Bev was previously a Secondary Principal in both country and disadvantaged areas of Adelaide, and Director of Teaching and Learning within the Department of Education and Child Development, prior to joining Flinders University in 2014. Her current research examines and challenges current dominant and culturally limited Western models of educational leadership, exploring culturally sensitive leadership interactions in diverse contexts. It also seeks to understand the impacts of professional learning on leaders' practice and the struggle, within the current policy context, to resist total compliance in finding agency for responding to contextual realities.

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