Educational Leadership Preparation and Development

As a Professor in Educational Leadership within the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Dr. David Gurr's responsibilities include preparing and teaching in pre-service and post-graduate programs, supervision of Masters and Doctoral research and representation on appropriate committees. He is the leader of the educational leadership academic group of the faculty. He teaches in the areas of educational leadership, strategic leadership, and school effectiveness and improvement. He is a founding member of the International Successful School Principalship Project, and co-led an Australian team that was awarded a national grant for this project in 2005. He is also a founding member of the International School Leadership Development Network, which is a joint partnership between UCEA and BELMAS. He has more than 200 publications and has presented more than 200 times at international and local conferences. David is  editor of the CCEAM journal International Studies in Educational Administration, senior associate editor of the Journal of Educational Administration and co-editor of the IAP book series International Research on School Leadership. He has received several honours from ACEL including being awarded the National Presidential Citation in 2004, a national fellowship in 2006, the Hedley Beare Educator of the Year award in 2012, and the Gold Medal in 2014.Dr. Peng Liu is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba, Canada. His research interests include Indigenous leadership cross cultures, effective leadership, higher education leadership, educational change, educational policy, principal/teacher professional development, and international and comparative education. Dr. Liu earned his doctorate degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Dr. Liu has published articles in peer-reviewed journals including Education Management, Administration and Leadership, School Effectiveness and School Improvement, the Journal of Educational Administration, and the International Journal of Leadership in Education. His most recent books include “Transforming Turnaround Schools in China: Approaches, Challenges and Achievements” (Springer, 2021),  “Educational leadership and Asian culture: Culturally sensitive leadership practices” (Routledge, 2024), and “ Understanding teacher leadership in educational change: An International Perspective” (Routledge, 2025).

• Chapter 1. Introduction:An International and Future Focused Perspective to the Development of Educational Leadership Preparation and Development - David Gurr and Peng Liu.- Part I: Future-focused approach for the preparation and development of teacher and middle leaders.- Chapter 2: A future-focused approach for the preparation and development of teacher and middle leaders - David Gurr, Berni Moreno, Lawrie Drysdale and Helen Goode.- Chapter 3: Leadership learning for teacher leadership competency development of pre-service teachers in Canada: Approaches and prospects - Peng Liu, Rosheedat Adeniji and Xuyang Li.-Part II: A future-focused approach to leadership preparation for equity, inclusion, and social justice.- Chapter 4: Social Justice Leadership and The Digital Divide in Education - Devery Rodgers.- Chapter 5: Preparing leaders for social justice. Insights for self-reflection - Cristina Moral-Santaella.- Chapter 6: Leadership for Equity starts with the disposition of the Leader - Ian Potter.- Chapter 7: The Path to Respectful Education and Inclusion: Leadership Preparation at the Crossroads - Patricia Silva, Charles Slater and Serafín Antúnez.- Section III: School, community and university partnerships for leadership preparation and development.- Chapter 8: Building Bridges: The Collaborative Power of School-University Partnerships in Leadership Preparation - Peter Moyi, Suzy Hardie.- Chapter 9: Filling the Gap: Rural School Leadership Development for Increased Teacher Retention in a University-District Partnership - Noelle A. Paufler, Angela Danielle Carter, Hans Klar.- Chapter 10: Political Acuity in School Principalship: Implications for Leadership Preparation, Development and Praxis - Alison Mitchell.- Part IV: Leadership training programs for future leadership development.- Chapter 11: Principals’ Continuing Development:  Culturally Competent Leadership is Not Enough - Pamela S. Angelle.- Chapter 12: Redesigning Principal Preparation Programs to Equip Leaders to Meet the Needs of the Future - Kaneshia Dorsan, Jami Berry, Karen Bryant and Amanda Cavin.- Chapter 13: Preparing, recruiting and retaining school principals: lessons from Into Headship, the Scottish headteacher preparation programme - Julie Harvie, Zoè Robertson and Kevin Brack.- Chapter 14: Rebuilding Democracy through School Leadership Training Program: A Swedish Case - Helene Ärlestig and Olof Johansson.- Chapter 15: Preparing for principalship: Case studies from Aotearoa New Zealand - Sylvia Robertson and Michele Morrison.- Chapter 16: Rejuvenating School Leadership Preparation and Development: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic - Nathern Okilwa, Bruce Barnett and Susan Cleveland.- Chapter 17: Leading in the Time of Instantaneity and Unpredictability: The Urgent Call to Develop and Empower School Leaders to Be Innovative and Creative - Miguel M. Gonzales, Stefan Brauckmann-Sajkiewicz and Petros Pashiardis.- Part V: Conclusion.- Chapter 18: Future perspectives on educational leadership preparation and development.- David Gurr and Peng Liu.