Enhancing Educational Leadership and Management for Effective Education Policy Implementation
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 1384
Special Issue Editor
Interests: educational governance; educational policy; educational leadership; school management; evaluation of schools; ILSA; PISA; accountability; school inspection; innovation in education; school improvement; equity in education
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Special Issue seeks research contributions that address the intersection between educational leadership and policy implementation, intending to significantly deepening our understanding in this area of study.
Research shows that leaders' actions are influenced by their social and political environment, as well as their knowledge, personal experiences, values, beliefs, and networks. Educational leaders, such as school principals, coordinators, and teachers, face numerous challenges in implementing school-specific improvement projects and public policies. They encounter internal pressures, such as differing opinions on the curriculum and assessment, and external, including inspections, family expectations and exams.
This Special Issue aims to capture how educational leaders interpret, translate, and implement policies. Various leadership approaches, such as those that are transformational, instructional, shared, and distributed, are welcome, along with different conceptual frameworks (e.g., policy enactment perspectives, institutional theory, cognitive and normative perspectives, socio-cognitive approaches, change theory).
The focus is on the relationship between leadership and policy enactment, and empirical papers addressing key issues are sought. These may include exploring how subjective variables influence educational leaders when implementing policies, the crucial management activities for policy enactment, leadership contribution to professional learning networks, how leaders use data for school improvement projects, the impact of specific leadership styles and processes on policy enactment, and how educational leaders interpret and translate policy interventions into practice.
By shedding light on the role of educational leaders in implementing various policies and programs, such as accountability policies, curriculum development, assessment practices, inclusion initiatives and digital education, this Special Issue will provide a comprehensive overview of how educational leadership unfolds when interpreting policies to put them into practice.
Dr. Estela Costa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- educational leadership
- educational management
- educational policy
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