Mapping Trends in Educational-Leadership Research: A Longitudinal Examination of Knowledge Production, Approaches and Locations

Autor/inn/en	McGinity, Ruth; Heffernan, Amanda; Courtney, Steven J.
Titel	Mapping Trends in Educational-Leadership Research: A Longitudinal Examination of Knowledge Production, Approaches and Locations
Quelle	In: Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 50 (2022) 2, S.217-232 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Heffernan, Amanda) ORCID (Courtney, Steven J.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1741-1432
DOI	10.1177/17411432211030758
Schlagwörter	Educational Administration; Educational Research; Instructional Leadership; Trend Analysis; Publications; Geographic Location; Research Methodology; Time; Periodicals; Journal Articles + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Trendanalyse; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Zeit; Periodical; Journal; Zeitschrift; Fachzeitschrift; Periodikum; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Abstract	The field of educational-leadership research has broadened over the last 50 years, with diverse knowledge-production traditions (e.g. functionalist and critical); audiences (e.g. practitioners, researchers and policymakers) and preferred sites of publication. In this article, we trace how the objectives, methods, claims and relative significance of educational-leadership research, and the identities and epistemological assumptions of educational-leadership researchers, are changing over time. We systematically and manually analysed trends in educational-leadership research through keyword searches across all journal publication sites over 50 years, exploring researchers' contributions, epistemological positioning and journal choices. We also explored the balance between empirical and conceptual scholarship, geographical location and use of theory. We found that critical educational-leadership research is common across the international field but is more likely to be published in high-ranking generalist education journals or lower-ranking educational-leadership-focused journals. Our research contributes a novel, robust and, significantly, relatively wide-ranging empirical basis to identify key trends, gaps and silences within the field of educational-leadership research over time. Our research enables better understanding of the areas that are potentially under-researched and the ways the field might be creating and reproducing power dynamics in research. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01