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Publication Date: 2022
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Definitions of Educational Leadership -- Arab Educators' Perspectives
Sellami, Abdel Latif; Sawalhi, Rania; Romanowski, Michael Henry; Amatullah, Tasneem
International Journal of Leadership in Education, v25 n5 p767-786 2022
This study aims to provide a general overview of how educational leadership is defined by Arab educators and education specialists in the Arab region, concentrating on the State of Qatar. The study builds on insights from socio-cultural theory and critical discourse analysis, viewing language as a social practice and thus treats leadership as a form of discursive practice. The study draws on grounded theory and adopts a socio-cultural perspective employing semi-structured interviews conducted with school principals, teachers, educators, educational leaders, educational researchers, and members of the community in Qatar. The results concluded from this study disclose discording views of educational leadership and how it is defined, owing to borrowing the concept from Western educational system models, either by using these terms verbatim or as they are lost in translation. This discord reflects a lack of clarity in using the relevant educational leadership concepts and has arguably led to differences in educational practices and educators' dispositions and perspectives. Finally, the study concludes with valuable recommendations for educational policy and decision-making and some suggestions for future research.
Descriptors: Arabs, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Attitudes, Specialists, Discourse Analysis, Sociocultural Patterns, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Researchers, Western Civilization, Technology Transfer, Educational Practices, Teacher Characteristics, Educational Policy, Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Indigenous Knowledge
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Qatar
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