Is ‘educational leadership’ a national-contextual field of study? Some insights from an analysis of the field's major journals

Abstract

Knowledge production in modern societies takes place in diverse arenas, such as corporations, research institutions, entrepreneurial agencies and universities. This last arena is embedded with disciplines and fields of study demarcated by institutional and scholarly boundaries within which intellectual work is conducted (Gunter, 2002). Each field (and discipline) has its own special interests, structured activities, rules of access, meanings and positions (Fitz, 1999) that provide ‘the intellectual lenses through which problems are defined and their solutions sought’ (English, 2001, p. 32).

Citation

Oplatka, I. and Addi-Raccah, A. (2009), "Is ‘educational leadership’ a national-contextual field of study? Some insights from an analysis of the field's major journals", Wiseman, A.W. (Ed.) Educational Leadership: Global Contexts and International Comparisons (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 399-418. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3679(2009)0000011016