The research on educational leadership and management in the Arab world since the 1990s: A systematic review

Oplatka, Izhar; Arar, Khalid

doi:10.1002/rev3.3095

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“…Up until 2010, EA scholarship was largely composed of studies conducted within a limited set of Anglo-American-European societies (Clarke & O'Donoghue, 2017;Hallinger, 2019;Mertkan et al, 2017;Oplatka, 2004). However, during this decade the internationalization of EA scholarship has been documented in the first "national" and "regional" reviews of EA research (e.g., Castillo & Hallinger, 2018;Flessa et al, 2018;Hallinger, 2018bHallinger, , 2019Hallinger & Bryant, 2013;Oplatka & Arar, 2017;Walker et al, 2012;Walker & Hallinger, 2015).…”

Section: Conceptual Background and Framework The Evolution Of Educatimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, publication trajectories can be used to track changes in the size of the knowledge base across decades. Time can be used to analyze geographical sources as well as trends in authorship and topical evolution (e.g., see Castillo & Hallinger, 2018;Gumus et al, 2018;Hallinger, 2018bHallinger, , 2019Hallinger & Bryant, 2013;Oplatka & Arar, 2017;Wang et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Analysis of the geographic distribution of scholarship offers insight into the distribution of scholarly capacity internationally. It also documents the breadth of knowledge about EA processes across the globe (Castillo & Hallinger, 2018;Flessa et al, 2018;Hallinger, 2018bHallinger, , 2019Hallinger & Bryant, 2013;Oplatka & Arar, 2017).…”

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A Bibliometric Review of Research on Educational Administration: Science Mapping the Literature, 1960 to 2018

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This systematic review used “science mapping” as a means of understanding the evolution of research in educational administration (EA). The review sought to document the size, growth trajectory, and geographic distribution of EA research, identify high impact scholars and documents, and illuminate the “intellectual structure” of the field. Although science mapping has been applied widely in science, medicine, and social sciences, it is still new in the field of education. The authors identified 22,361 peer-reviewed articles published in 22 Scopus-indexed EA journals between 1960 and 2018. The authors used VOSviewer, Excel, and Tableau software to analyze the data set. The review found that the EA knowledge base has grown dramatically since 1960 with an accelerating rate growth and increasing gender and geographic diversity during the past two decades. Using co-citation analysis, the review identified canonical documents, defined as highly influential documents whose impact has been sustained for a period of several decades. The review also identified four key Schools of Thought that have emerged over time focusing on Leadership for Learning, Leadership and Cultural Change, School Effectiveness and School Improvement, and Leading Teachers. More broadly, our findings highlighted a paradigm shift from “school administration” to “school leadership” over the course of the six decades. Another significant finding identified “leadership for student learning and development” as the “cognitive anchor” of the intellectual structure of the EA knowledge base. The authors conclude that science mapping offers a new and useful means of unpacking the historical development of fields of study.

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“…Whilst the current study is conducted in a higher education context where academic autonomy is considered a core value (Lumby 2012a), centralisation seems more unattractive as it could be a reason for leaving CAS altogether. Oplatka and Arar's (2017) review suggests that the application of shared leadership in decision making and staff empowerment is extremely limited in Arab countries while Elmeski (2013) argues that such forms of leadership are impeded by bureaucracy and hierarchical nature of the education systems compared to Western countries.…”

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Managing cultural diversity for collective identity: A case study of an ELT department in Omani higher education

Muqarshi¹,

Kaparou²,

Kelly³

2020

Educational Management Administration & Leadership

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This paper employs a social identity approach to explore the management of a collective organizational culture in a culturally diverse context. Literature suggests that cultural diversity can be an asset for organizations if managed effectively. This study employs a qualitative case-study design, drawn on data generated for a larger project that utilized 16 interviews, eight team meetings’ observations, document analysis and field notes. It instrumentally uses a Department of English as its site due to the prevalence of cultural diversity in such context. The paper explores whether leadership is perceived as effective towards establishing a collective identity in an Omani higher education (HE) domain. The findings suggest that leadership impact is restricted by the central management of the system that translates largely into transactional leadership and hierarchical approaches at the level of the group and largely fails to establish such an inclusive identity. The paper argues that in a globalizing era, Omani HE can only view cultural diversity as an asset that aids its intellectual capital establishment. Hence, it should cater for such a composition and engineer it effectively to achieve better alignment with the requirements of the current market. These findings can be of value to policy makers, researchers and professionals in HE.

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“…Besides their shared language heritage, these people share a similar history, Islamic identity and values, and many socio-cultural structural aspects. However, these states do differ in other ways, such as politics, economy and education (Arar & Oplatka, 2015;Oplatka & Arar, 2017).…”

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Financing Higher Education in Arab Countries: Challenges, Constraints and Solutions

Al-Kubaisi

Rasool²

2020

JETS

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This study related to the HE finance system aims primarily to systematically identify, summarize, examine and critically analyze the key challenges and constraints confronting HE finance as investigated in the research on this subject and propose solutions for further improvement. The findings from the defined sample of 24 relevant studies showed that major constraints and challenges facing HE financing certainly affects the flow of adequate finance provided to HEIs, including brain drain, existence of a gap between educational outcomes and labor market, reliance on policy learning and dependency on others, financial crisis, shortage of governmental resources, and poor participation of the private sector and civil society. The constraints and challenges were identified based on insightful theoretical constructs that highly characterized by principles and concepts which may not allow us to practicably develop a clear understanding of how to inspire the development of HE finance that would be a concern of policymakers and speedily acts on policy-making. However, the integration of such theoretical constructs (or others) and the introduction of serious attempts or thoughtful scenarios towards practical applications are mostly ignored. The need to acknowledge the constraints associated with limits on finance is fundamental for declining the hazardously high levels of unemployment for a sustainable economic growth. Finally, quantitative and mixed method research designs, and cross-sectional and panel analysis data are recommended to assess the influence of the HE finance systems and to identify the best opportunities and ways to meet challenges confronted by the countries, given their social and political paradigms.

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The research on educational leadership and management in the Arab world since the 1990s: A systematic review

Cited by 75 publications

References 65 publications

A Bibliometric Review of Research on Educational Administration: Science Mapping the Literature, 1960 to 2018

A Bibliometric Review of Research on Educational Administration: Science Mapping the Literature, 1960 to 2018

Managing cultural diversity for collective identity: A case study of an ELT department in Omani higher education

Financing Higher Education in Arab Countries: Challenges, Constraints and Solutions

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