Leading under Pressure

Stephanie Chitpin is a Full Professor of Leadership in the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada. She is the recipient of the 2020 Research Excellence Award. Her research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Ontario Ministry of Education, Canada, is international in scope. Her research includes the analysis of the Objective Knowledge Growth Framework (OKGF), based on Sir Karl Popper's critical rationalism, as a new tool for understanding principals' decision-making. She is Series Editor of "Transforming Education Through Critical Leadership, Policy and Practice." She has authored over 100 aricles and several books on leadership. Her most recent book is Understanding Decision-Making in Educational Contexts: A Case Study approach (2021).


Robert E. White has taught extensively in public school across Canada for over twenty years Robert is a Senior Research Professor with the Faculty of Education at St Francis Xavier University and an adjunct professor in education at the University of Toronto (OISE). Robert's research interests include educational administration and policy, postmodernity and globalization, qualitative research methodologies, and critical pedagogy. Robert is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Leadership in Education and Editor of the International Studies in Educational Administration. His most recent publication is Qualitative Research in the Postmodern Era, Volume II: Critical Approaches and Selected Methodologies (2022).