Emotion Management and Feelings in Teaching and Educational Leadership

Izhar Oplatka is Professor of Educational Administration and Leadership and Head of the Department of Educational Policy and Administration at Tel Aviv University, Israel. His research focuses on the lives and careers of school teachers and principals, educational marketing, emotions in schools, and the foundations of educational administration as a field of study. Khalid Arar is President of Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis in education, Israel. His research focuses in issue of diversity and equity in educational leadership and higher education, and he is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Leadership in Education.

• Introduction; Izhar Oplatka & Khalid Arar Section One: Culture and Context in the Study of Emotion in Education  Chapter 1. A Call to Study Educator Emotion as a Contextualized Phenomenon; Izhar Oplatka & Khalid ArarChapter 2. Organising in Schools: It's all about Emotions; Chris James Section Two: Educational Management and Emotion in Different Cultural Arenas Chapter 3. Exploring Emotion Management Strategies of Junior High School Teachers in Shanghai, China; Weisheng Li & Meng Tian Chapter 4. A Female School Leader and Emotional Management: Coping in 'Special Measures' in a Secondary School in England; Joanne Cliffe Chapter 5. A Restorative Approach to Valuing Emotion Management in Educational Leadership: The Case of Liberians and Palestinian Arabs in Israel; Alia Sheety Chapter 6. Emotion Expression Among Arab Deputy-Principals in Israel: The Key Role of the Local Culture; Khalid Arar Chapter 7. Muslim Women Mobilizing Emotionality; Amaarah DeCuir Chapter 8. Factors Affecting Emotional Management in Highly Complex Schools: The Case of Two Spanish Schools; Serafín Antúnez; Patricia Silva & Charles L. Slater Section Three: Cross-Cultural Understandings of Educators' Feelings and Emotions Chapter 9. New Principals’ Emotions: Interactions with ‘Inherited’ School Cultures; Rinnelle Lee-Piggott Chapter 10. There is Always Light at the End of the Tunnel: Emotions of a Turkish School Leader in a Syrian Refugee School; Deniz Örücü Chapter 11. The Effects of Shame in School Leadership: The Case of Turkish Principals; Kadir Beycioglu & Mehmet Sincar Chapter 12. Building Teachers' Trust in Principals and Colleagues: A Study of Critical Incidents in Chilean Schools; José Weinstein; Javiera Peña; Javiera Marfán & Dagmar Raczynski Chapter 13. Understanding Willpower and Its Role in Leadership: A Study on how Educational Leaders from different multicultural backgrounds perceive Willpower; Rose Anne Cuschieri

This important edited book provides valuable insights into the emotional dimensions of leadership from a cross-cultural perspective and with an impressive cast of authors from several international contexts.