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Mapping the terrain of educational leadership and management in East Asia

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to gain perspective on the extent to which the vision for
knowledge production in East Asia set forth by Bajunid, Cheng, Hallinger, Walker, Dimmock and
others almost 20 years ago has been fulfilled. The authors undertook an effort to map the terrain of
knowledge production in educational leadership and management in East Asia since the year 2000.
Their method of mapping this terrain involves the analysis of trends in publication of articles about
and/or from East Asia in eight core educational leadership and management journals.
Design/methodology/approach – The authors’ methodology employed a descriptive, quantitative
form of literature review. They identified a clearly delimited body of literature, comprised of all articles
published about or from East Asia between 2000 and 2011 in eight core educational leadership and
management journals. Then they employed a systematic search for information within that literature
and analyzed trends across the studies. This allowed them to map the terrain of recent research on
educational leadership and management within East Asia.
Findings – The volume of knowledge production from East Asia between 2000 and 2011 consisted of
less than 6 per cent of total output in the relevant journals. Although there was a discernible increase
in the annual rate of publication over the course of the 12-year period, the authors treat the increase as
relatively unimportant given the small volume. A substantial majority of the publications not only
came from a few societies, but from a small number of universities. Citation analyses were highly
consistent with all of the above trends, and reinforced a picture of limited impact.
Research limitations/implications – The authors’ study focused on a clearly delimited region,
East Asia. Although they believe that the study may have implications for other regions of the
developing world, they do not speculate on the extent of relevance. The authors intentionally limited
their definition of the corpus of knowledge to a specific set of international refereed journals that are
published in English. This ignores the potential contributions of conference papers, books, book
chapters, research handbooks, domestic journals, and even other international journals in which
educational leadership scholars publish.
Originality/value – To the authors’ knowledge, there have been no efforts undertaken to understand
the nature of knowledge production in educational leadership and management in East Asia. When
approaching this review in 2012, the authors were not under the illusion that the regional knowledge
base would be either overly dense in terms of the concentration of studies within particular areas or
broad in scope. However, future scholarship may be aided by this systematic assessment of the current
knowledge base on educational leadership in the region.

Keywords Research and development, Educational management, Educational leadership, Asia,Knowledge base, Asian studies, Educational administration, Knowledge management

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Journal of Educational Administration

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: Emerald Group., 2013

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Journal of Educational Administration Vol. 51 No. 5, 2013 pp. 618-637

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English

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