Demystifying Educational Leadership and Administration in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges and Prospects

This volume explores how educational leadership and administration (ELA) is constructed in the Middle East and North African region (MENA), and charts the development of ELA as a discipline.

Against the backdrop of rapid growth and interest in the educational restructuring, educational reforms, policy and leadership landscape of the region, chapters investigate issues concerned with the production and utilization of knowledge in the field, and analyse the future of ELA in relation to the educational policies and practices in MENA countries. Featuring a broad range of geographically dispersed specialist contributors involved in leadership, policy, and administration, the volume ultimately sheds light on this little-researched area of study to demystify common tropes and misunderstandings surrounding ELA in the MENA region.

This book will be of use to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students involved with international and comparative education, higher education management, and education policy and politics more broadly.

Khalid Arar is a Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy, School Improvement Doctoral Program at the College of Education, Texas State University, USA.

Selahattin Turan is Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy, College of Education, Bursa Uludağ University, Turkey.

Sedat Gümüş is Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership and Research Fellow of the Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change at the EdUHK, Hong Kong.

Abdellatif Sellami is Director of the Education Research Centre, the College of Education, Qatar University, Qatar.

Julia Mahfouz is Associate Professor in the Leadership for Educational Organizations program, School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver, USA.