Understanding Leadership in Education

Colin W. Evers is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of New South Wales. He studied mathematics, philosophy, and education before taking his PhD in philosophy of education at the University of Sydney. His teaching and research interests are in educational administration and leadership, philosophy of education, and research methodology. He is Section Editor of the Springer Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Educational Administration) and has been an Associate Editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory and a Co-Editor of International Studies in Educational Administration. His current research concerns the application of scientific realism and coherentist inference to theories of individual and distributed cognition in leadership. He has co-edited and co-authored fourteen books, mostly on aspects of educational administration and leadership, and over 120 scholarly papers in his areas of research interest.
Gabriele Lakomski is Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are in the areas of leadership, organisational learning and culture, cognition and emotion in cognitive science. Her current research focuses on neuroscience and the emotions, the relation between cognition and emotion, and what this means for rational decision-making and leadership in organisational contexts. Gabriele was Editor of the Australian Journal of Education; Section Editor of the Second International Encyclopedia of Education; Senior Editor of Organization Studies, and Section Editor of the Springer Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Educational Leadership). She is a member of a number of editorial boards, such as the Journal of Educational Administration, Educational Management and Leadership, Management Learning and Academy of Management Perspectives. She is author, co-author and co-editor of six books and over 80 scholarly papers.