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Key Questions for Educational Leaders

What is inclusive leadership? How can educational leaders support gender and sexual minorities in their schools? What does racism have to do with school leadership?

This book features essays from top international scholars and practitioners on educational leadership.  Each of these authors addresses a specific question directly related to educational leadership and how to make schools more equitable and socially just. Key Questions for Educational Leaders is a must-read for all current and aspiring educational leaders as well as those who facilitate leadership programs and ongoing learning.

Some of the featured authors include:  Helen M. Gunter (University of Manchester);  Joan Poliner Shapiro (Temple University); George Sefa Dei (OISE/UT); John MacBeath (Cambridge University); Margaret Grogan (Chapman University, California); John Smyth (University of Huddersfield);  Lejf Moos (Aarhus University, Copenhagen); and Ronald G. Sultana (University of Malta).

Praise for Key Questions for Educational Leaders

The editors of this volume have done an outstanding job in weaving the multiple authors and their viewpoints into such an engaging and provocative book. Key Questions for Educational Leaders should become standard fare in educational leadership circles and well beyond.
~Catherine A. Lugg, Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University

Both theoretically sound and practical, Key Questions for Educational Leaders is a stunning compilation of essays that span across important epistemological tensions often ignored in the literature on leadership studies. This volume is absolutely a gem for inspiring dialogue within both the classroom and larger community regarding critical concerns vital to a critical praxis of social justice—one not only committed to emancipatory ideals but also to genuinely transforming the world for the better.
~Antonia Darder, Leavey Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership, Loyola Marymount University

Whether you’re an aspiring leader, a newly-appointed one, an established/experienced school leader or even a consultant one, there’s something in Key Questions for Educational Leaders for you. The book could be used to build capacity, to create confidence, to pose hard question, to challenge or just to generate curiosity. Extensive bibliographies accompanying the articles can be used for additional reading or further research. In short—a gem!
~Clive Byrne, Director, National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals, & President, European School Heads Association

If you want to understand the complexities, including the contradictions and tensions of educational leadership, read this book! Darrin Griffiths and John Portelli have done a superb job of bringing together a group of authors whose chapters will engage the reader in reflecting and interrogating their own educational practices of leadership, while at the same time keeping the focus on having learners in schools have a better experience than has historically been the case. 
~Blye Frank, Professor & Dean, Faculty of Education, UBC

This book provides a refreshing and comprehensive approach to educational leadership, bringing together essays by leading academics from across the world. It will be of interest to a wide audience.
~David Egan, Professor of Welsh Education Policy, Director, Wales Centre for Equity in Education, University of Wales Trinity St. David