Chapter 12: Conceptualizing Educational Administration in Diverse Contexts

This book highlights the contextual nuances of leadership and governance across a range of settings. The distinctive nature of leadership challenges throughout the Asia-Pacific provide richly complex backdrops to the area of educational administration. Overlaying and intersecting these challenges are material concerns of governance. At a wider level again, but no less influential, globalization and free market logics have penetrated forms of leadership and governance in the Asia-Pacific region. The same can be said of educational administration. While most economies in the region have benefited from increased regional capital and labor market flows, trade, and other forms of economic interaction, these benefits have also been accompanied by a number of difficulties for educational administrators, who are responsible for making the pieces of leadership and governance fit together within the practical settings—and education practices—of institutions such as schools and other education providers.