Showcasing exemplary practices of school and district administrators, Decision Making in Educational Leadership covers issues concerning the role of emotion, ethical and legal ramifications, the use of data, and complexity in decision making.

Stephanie Chitpin is Associate Professor of Leadership, Evaluation, and Curriculum at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Colin W. Evers is Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Preface, Stephanie Chitpin and Colin W. Evers

Part I: Data Driven Decision Making

Chapter 1: The Changing Dynamics of Educational Judgment and Decision Making in a Data Driven World, Andy Hargreaves, Alex Gurn, Beth Morgan and Henry Braun

Chapter 2: Principals' Evidence-Based Decision Making: Its Nature and Impacts, Jingping Sun

Part II: Emotional and Epistemological Decision Making Structures

Chapter 3: Capturing Principals' Decision Making Processes in an Online Professional Learning Community, Stephanie Chitpin

Chapter 4: Decision Making as Problem-solving Trajectories, Colin W. Evers

Chapter 5: Emotions, Emotional Intelligence, and Leadership: From Folkpsychology to Neuroscience, Gabriele Lakomski

Part III: Complexity and Decision Making

Chapter 6: On the Job Decision Making: Understanding and Evaluating how Leaders Solve Problems, Viviane Robinson and Rozanne Donald

Chapter 7: Re-Visioning Decision Making in Educational Leadership, Peter Grimmett

Chapter 8: Principals' Perceptions about Resistance to the Implementation of Major Decisions, Karen Starr

Chapter 9: Trusting our Schools: The 'Soft' Side of Decision Making, Dean Fink

Part IV: Ethical and Legal Issues

Chapter 10: Ethical Decision Making in Leadership: A Moral Literacy Perspective, Patrick Jenlink

Chapter 11: Justice and Equity in Educational Provision: The Case of Ontario, Marvin. A. Zuker

Chapter 12: Educational Leadership and Decision Making: Making the Politics and Policy Visible, Howard Stevenson