This book if published will contribute to new understandings of familiar material both by treating it in an original and stimulating manner and also by applying this to a context in which to date, whilst this has been attracting increasing attention, has received relatively little attention to date. It will also, mainly in its second and third parts, present new material gained from research. Given all this, and given the combination of established and relatively new scholarly contributors to the fields of educational leadership and administration, this book will certainly be welcomed by tutors and students alike. It should also be of interest to a wide variety of practitioners.Given the quality and originality of the two books that Eugenie Samier has edited for the Routledge in recent times (‘Ethical Foundations for Educational Administration;’ and ‘Aesthetic Dimensions of Educational Administration and Leadership’) and given the general excellence of the proposed contributors she has attracted, I am confident that the scholarship that goes into this proposal is excellent.I believe that this remarkably full and through proposal is very well thought through. It will seek to offer a philosophical and theoretical foundation for an area of growing significance which has largely hitherto lacked this. P. Ribbins