School Leadership and Administration Adopting a Cultural Perspective

Globalization has enabled educational theory, policy, and practice to cross national boundaries with unprecedented ease, thus encouraging administrators around the world to share strategies and methods. Yet scholarly accounts of globalization often fail to recognize the importance of the indigenous cultures that interact with and mediate globalizing forces. Allan Walker and Clive Dimmock argue that a consideration of local culture is vital to any understanding of educational leadership, administration, and organization. In keeping with this demand, the essays collected in School Leadership and Administration highlight sociocultural influences upon schooling in East and Southeast Asia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and beyond. Taken together, these studies develop a cross-cultural approach to school administration, and provide a needed comparative dimension to the field. While much scholarship within international education has worked to establish paradigms for school structure and organization, this collection pays overdue attention to the contexts within which these models are interpreted and used. In this way, School Leadership and Administration constitutes the first foray into the uncharted terrain of comparative educational administration and leadership.Walker, Allan is the author of 'School Leadership and Administration Adopting a Cultural Perspective' with ISBN 9780415932936 and ISBN 0415932939.