Educational Leadership, Management and Policy in International Education

Dear Colleagues,

During this century, there has been significant growth in the number of international education institutions. These include the following: international schools following a curriculum that originates outside the country in which they are operating; transnational higher education institutions; country-to-country policy borrowing/policy learning in both compulsory and higher education; and other internationalised elements to national education. The internationalisation of education has implications for the leadership and management of educational systems in differing countries and their organisations’ practices. 

The globalisation of education appears to be inherently good and important, emphasising the things that unite us; a global good with youngsters subsequently having a ‘global mind set’. However, this presupposition may well be challenged, arguing that such education camouflages inequalities that pervade education, such as who benefits from such provision and how it is constructed. International education has not been uniform in its global impact; for example, international schooling has grown most rapidly in the Middle East and South East Asia. Transnational education has, until recently, predominantly involved flows of income towards the countries of the Global North and away from the Global South. An exploration of the practices of international education involves not only charting neoliberal markets of globalisation but also moral questions of what education is and ought to be. 

This Special Issue explores these issues. Contributions can be empirical or conceptual, addressing macro, meso, or micro issues of the educational leadership, management and/or policy of international education. 

Suggested themes for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following: 

• The leadership and management of international schools;
• The leadership and management of transnational educational organisations;
• International educational policy;
• Effects of globalisation on educational leadership, management and/ or policy. 

Dr. Mark T. Gibson
Dr. Lucy Bailey
Guest Editors

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• educational leadership
• leadership of international schools
• globalisation of education
• transnational education
• educational policy-borrowing
• educational policy learning