Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Working Within Radical Pluralism: Reconstructing Educational Leadership; Chapter 1 Educational Leadership for What? An Educational Examination ; Introduction: Educational Leadership for What?; The Learnification of Education; The Question of Purpose in Education: A Threefold Issue; The Need for Judgment and Pragmatism; How Does Education Work, and How Can It Work Better?; The Duty to Resist; Conclusion: Educational Leadership for What?; Notes; References; Chapter 2 The Question of Creativity for the Field of Educational Leadership OrientationsStates of Creativity Inquiry in Educational Leadership Journals; Orientations to Creativity in Educational Leadership Journals; Creative Leadership; Creative Learning; Orientations to Barriers to the "Release" of Personal Creativity; Worlds; Opening; Acknowledgment; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Educational Leadership and Emotion ; Introduction; Folk Psychology, Emotion, and Reason; Reasons and Causes; Emotion in Education and Educational Leadership; What Is This Thing Called Empathy?; Mind Reading and Mindblindness; Emotion Regulation and Emotional Labor; Conclusion; Notes Collaborative networksInnovation; Rethinking Policy and Elma Purposefully Through a Social Justice Lens; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 6 Politics, Activism, and Leadership for Social Justice in Education; The Neoliberal World; Educational Politics; Strategic Activism; Strategic Activism and Leadership; Being Strategic; Understanding and Acquiring Knowledge; Positioning; Taking Action; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7 From "Data-Driven" to "Democracy‐Driven" Educational Leadership: Navigating Market Bureaucracy and New Technology in a post-Fordist Era Origins of Data-Driven Leadership: Taylorism, Positivism, High-Stakes Testing The Political Economy of Data-Driven Educational Leadership: The New Market Bureaucracy ; Emerging Technology and the War over Data: Big Data, Learning Analytics, the Convergence of Data Systems; Data-Driven to Democracy-Driven Educational Leadership ; References; Chapter 8 Educational Leadership and Environmental Justice in a Climate‐Challenged World; Notes on Regenerative Leadership; Notes on Human Evolution; The Global Landscape Today; Environmental Justice Leadership in the United States; Community.

What is educational leadership? What are some of the trends, questions, and social forces most relevant to the current state of education? What are the possible futures of education, and what can educational leadership contribute to these futures? To address these questions, and more, editors Duncan Waite and Ira Bogotch asked distinguished international thought leaders on education to share their insights, observations, and research findings on the nature of education and educational leadership in the global village.