Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 48 Issue 5

De‐constructing the logic/emotion binary in educational leadership preparation and practice

Cheryl L. Bolton, Fenwick W. English

The purpose of this paper is to de‐construct the traditional bifurcation of logic and emotion in the preparation of educational leaders which, following regnant business planning…

Preventing and combating administrative narcissism: Implications for professional programmes

Eugenie A. Samier, Terryl Atkins

The paper seeks to examine the problem of destructive narcissism as an aspect of the emotional dimension of educational administration. Positions of power and influence provide…

Facing “reality”: including the emotional in school leadership programmes

Janice Wallace

The purpose of this paper is to argue that emotions characterise organisations and, therefore, emotional labour and performance is central to the work of school administration…

The emotional aspects of leadership for social justice: Implications for leadership preparation programs

Michalinos Zembylas

The paper seeks to examine the potential implications for leadership preparation programs of the intersection between emotions and leadership for social justice.

Is there a place for emotions within leadership preparation programmes?

Michèle J. Schmidt

The purpose of this paper is to present the argument that leadership preparation programmes in the new millennium should be required to train school leaders emotionally as well as…

Preparing leaders to work with emotions in culturally diverse educational communities

Jill Blackmore

This paper argues that because leadership is a relational practice and leaders are gendered and racialised, in socially diverse schools and societies, leader preparation around…

Emotions “out of the closet” and into the graduate classroom

Carol E. Harris

The purpose of this end piece, framed in aesthetic and critical theory, is to review the author's own approach with graduate students regarding the omnipresence and significance…

The emotional imperative in administrative and leadership education

Eugenie A. Samier, Michele Schmidt