Educational Leadership in Higher Education: A Scientific Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saad Ahmed Abdiwali
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Leadership In Higher Education

scholarly journals Understanding race and educational leadership in higher education

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 192-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Arday
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Senior Leadership ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Career Trajectory ◽  
Senior Leaders ◽  
Organizational Barriers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Leadership In Higher Education ◽  
The Uk

The dearth of representation regarding Black and Ethnic Minorities (BME) in senior educational leadership roles within higher education (HE) has become a salient issue as egalitarian notions associated with equality and diversity continue to be contradicted by university institutions, despite increased calls for greater diversification. Educational leadership in higher education within the United Kingdom (UK), particularly when aligned to the primacy of race, remains oblivious to some of the organizational barriers encountered by BME academics attempting to navigate a career trajectory towards senior leadership. The diversification of senior leaders within the Academy in the UK has increasingly become an issue that, although prevalent, has stagnated owing to the lack of visible BME senior leaders and penetrative change to address the disparity regarding recruitment and promotion of more BME academics to leadership hierarchies. This article draws on a collective biography methodology, which will utilize narratives from three BME academics in senior leadership positions within higher education in the UK, in an attempt to illuminate the challenges that saturate the Academy, concerning leadership opportunities and career pathways for BME academics. The issues drawn upon identify synergies between constructions of race and leadership, whilst considering the interplay between these two vehicles when situated within a higher education context.

APPROACHES TO THE LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 549-559
Author(s):  
Ausra Rutkiene ◽  
Ilona Tandzegolskiene
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
School System ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Organizational Systems ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Research Supervision ◽  
Leadership In Higher Education ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Points Of View

The concept of leadership in education has been influenced by several disciplines: sociology, psychology, political science, economics, philosophy (Simkins, 2005, English, 2006). The development of the concept of leadership has also been greatly influenced by the analysis of organizational systems from a sociological perspective (English, 2006).The analysis of scientific literature shows that the concept of leadership in education is analyzed and presented by many authors from different points of view. Leadership in education is analyzed by emphasizing the position of administration and management, reviewing changes in the school system and leadership models that help to implement systemic changes in school, focusing on the learning process and curriculum development, emphasizing leadership in higher education, narrative, historical context, and meta-analysis.The results of the focus group with higher education staff show that leadership in higher education covers a wide range of activities: administration, management, teaching, research, supervision of final theses, decision-making in projects - basically sociological, political, administrative, philosophical aspects of leadership are incorporated. 

A review of literature on women’s leadership in higher education in developed countries and in Vietnam: Barriers and enablers

2021 ◽  
pp. 174114322110214
Author(s):  
Greeni Maheshwari
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Women Leaders ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women's Leadership ◽  
Barriers And Enablers ◽  
Leadership In Higher Education ◽  
The Difference

The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the literature on women’s leadership in higher education in the last 20 years. This literature review employed a systematic review of 64 articles published worldwide with 28 articles specifically published in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam. The aim of the study is to determine if there are any differences in barriers and enablers of women leaders between the developed countries chosen for this study and Vietnam in higher education and how the countries are progressing towards gender equality. The study concluded that most of the research in women’s leadership in higher education had been done in the US and Canada, with a dearth of literature on women’s leadership in higher education in Asia, and only six studies have been done in Vietnam till 2019, with only two studies done before 2017. The findings suggested that women leaders in developed countries and Vietnam still face almost the same challenges as in the past but, with family support, these challenges are becoming less in Vietnam. Mentor support was found to be an enabler in other developed countries which was missing in Vietnam. Vietnam is gaining importance in research in women’s leadership in higher education, which may be due to an increased female labour participation rate and higher growth in gross domestic product rates. The future of women leaders seems to be bright, especially in Vietnam, due to higher female educational attainment. There is a small number of literature review studies on barriers and enablers in the field of women leaders in higher education comparing developed nations and a developing country. Hence, the current study aims to fill this gap to provide an overview of the difference between the enablers and barriers faced by women leaders between developed countries and Vietnam.

scholarly journals Considerations on Intellectual and Academic Leadership of a Scholar in Higher Education: The Descriptive Literature Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
Vilma Žydžiūnaitė
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Academic Leadership ◽  
Leadership In Higher Education ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Intellectual Leadership

AbstractIntroduction: The search for solutions to the issue of leadership leads to hundreds of leadership studies, most of which are contradictory and inconclusive. The scientific literature on leadership in higher education is focused mainly on educational, academic, managerial or thought leadership. This literature provides the opinion that the intellectual leadership in higher education is directed towards building social and intellectual capital through a scholar’s involvement in decision-making and performance of leadership roles in ways that support the scholar’s collaborative decision-making and empowerment. Scholars see intellectual leadership as the scope of challenging processes, which incorporate ideas, values, understandings, solutions, beliefs, visions, knowledge, approaches, purpose and actions. These aspects must be accepted through collectively-shared understanding and generated contextually for organizational development in higher education. With growth in administrative demands, it becomes difficult for intellectual leaders to achieve an appropriate balance of leadership, teaching and research in higher education.Purpose: To explore and describe the conceptual contents of intellectual leadership and academic leadership by providing their similarities and differences.Methods: In the research, a descriptive literature review (Yang & Tate, 2012) was applied. The sample was mainly based on academic publications; the articles included are all refereed journal articles.Conclusions: The literature review covered wide range of aspects, which reveal that intellectual leadership consists of roles that have several orientations, but the intellectual leadership is not related to the formal administrational or managerial positions. The roles of a scholar in relation to the concept of “intellectual leadership” maybe seen through the following activity spheres: mentor represents educational sphere, guardian – moral sphere, enabler – managerial and administrative spheres, and ambassador – political and communication sphere (Zydziunaite, 2016). The importance of personal characteristics and academic achievements in the formation of intellectual leaders’ reputation is also highlighted in the article. Despite the limitations of definitions on intellectual leadership it is argued that this concept is related to the organic personality of an intellectual leader (scholar) who acts as organizer of ideas, carries responsibility for academic development and direction in higher education.

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