Research and Educational Leadership will prove to be an invaluable tool in re-thinking the way research is conducted in educational leadership and how public and private funding agencies should view research proposals which have potential to improve leadership practices in schools. The text will also become a key resource in teaching researchers to think more deeply about school leadership as they engage in dissertation research.

Edited by Fenwick W. English and Gail C. Furman - Contributions by Carol F. Karpinski; Catherine A. Lugg; Margaret Terry Orr; Carolyn Riehl; Carolyn M. Shields; Linda C. Tillman and Michelle D. Young

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The NRC's Scientific Research in Education: It Isn't Even Wrong! Chapter 4 Scientific Research in Education: Implications for Culturally Sensitive Research Frameworks in Educational Leadership Chapter 5 The Political Paradoxes of Scientific Research in Education Chapter 6 "Scientific" Research and the New Narrative for Educational Leadership Chapter 7 What's a Researcher to Do? Insights for "Post-Anything" Researchers Chapter 8 Standards for Research(er) Integrity in Educational Leadership: Implications for Current and Future Researchers Chapter 9 Research on Educational Leadership: Knowledge We Need for the World We Live In