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Revisiting the Intangibles of Educational Leadership

Ibrahim Ahmad Bajunid

Objectives

The paper revisits the notion of the “intangibles” of Leadership, with special reference
to educational leadership. During over a century of study, research and writings on
educational leadership, scholars have covered important themes across all levels of
educational institutions. However, there remains many areas of unaddressed as well as
inadequately addressed areas of significant concerns, including indigenous leadership,
religious leadership, women in educational leadership, philosophies ideologies of
educational leadership, creativity and innovations in educational leadership actions
and interdisciplinary perspectives regarding the intangibles of Educational leadership.

Perspective

In continuing the focused and deep studies by scholars such as Philip Hallinger, Allan
Walker and the significant others in the field, the paper takes a critical perspective of
the state of knowledge of educational leadership East and West.

Modes of Inquiry

The paper is grounded on literature review on educational leadership in the tradition
of such studies as The Man in the Principal’s Office (Wolcott, H.F, 1973), Teacher
Thinking-A Study of Practical Knowledge (Elbaz, F. 1983), The Courage to Teach (Palmer,
P. J. 1998), The Culture of Education (Bruner, J. 1996), Educating the Reflective
Practitioner-Toward A New Design for Teaching and Learning in the Professions (Schon,
D. A. 1987), Books for Critical Consciousness (Progler, G. 2010), Development of Teacher
Education Model for Preparing Quality Teachers for the Future (Universiti Pendidikan

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