Providing an overview of essential topics within the field, this book adopts an international perspective and offers conceptual and empirical insights into:

- Moral and ethical leadership

- Distributed leadership

- Developing leaders

- Leadership for learning

- Building and leading learning cultures

- Managing human and financial resources

- Leadership for diversity

- Leadership, partnerships and community

- Professionalism and professional development

The book is for scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in educational leadership, management and administration, as well as for senior leaders in education and those taking professional leadership qualifications.