Publication: Science mapping the knowledge base on educational leadership and management in Africa, 1960–2018
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2019-10-20
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13632434
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Mahidol University
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School Leadership and Management. Vol.39, No.5 (2019), 537-560
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Philip Hallinger Science mapping the knowledge base on educational leadership and management in Africa, 1960–2018. School Leadership and Management. Vol.39, No.5 (2019), 537-560. doi:10.1080/13632434.2018.1545117 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/49939
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Science mapping the knowledge base on educational leadership and management in Africa, 1960–2018
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This review of research employed science mapping to analyse the intellectual structure of the knowledge base on educational leadership and management in Africa. The review analysed 645 Scopus-indexed documents on EDLM in Africa published between 1960 and 2018. Meta data associated with these documents were analysed using the VOSviewer software. The complementary use of citation and co-citation analysis determined that 95% of the African literature in EDLM has been published since 2000. Geographical distribution of African scholarship was highly skewed with South African scholarship accounting for 74% of the corpus. Citations analyses also identified highly cited scholars and documents within this literature. Analysis of the intellectual structure of the African EDLM knowledge base identified four main Schools of Thought. Three of these were comprised primarily of Africa-based scholarship and determined to be 'distinctively African' in terms of topical foci. The ‘research front’ or most current topical trend in this literature concerns leadership for educational and social transformation. Recommendations are made for building capacity among African EDLM scholars as well as for next steps in advancing the literature.