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Journal of Research on Leadership Education

Journal of Research on Leadership Education


eISSN: 19427751 | ISSN: 19427751 | Current volume: 19 | Current issue: 3 Frequency: Quarterly
The Journal of Research on Leadership Education (JRLE), an electronic peer-reviewed journal, provides an international venue for scholarship and discourse on the teaching and learning of leadership across the many disciplines that inform the field of educational leadership. JRLE seeks to promote and disseminate rigorous scholarship on the teaching, learning, and assessing of leadership preparation and practice, the political and contextual issues that impact leadership education, and the links between leadership education and student learning. JRLE accepts empirical and conceptual articles and embraces both traditional and emergent research paradigms.

The Journal of Research on Leadership Education (JRLE), an electronic peer-reviewed journal, seeks to promote and disseminate rigorous scholarship and provide an international venue across multiple disciplines and contexts to inform the field of educational leadership.

We strongly encourage submissions such as:

  • Innovative approaches and techniques for leadership preparation pedagogy, programs, and professional development
  • Research on leadership preparation pedagogy, programs, and professional development, including evaluation of impacts and outcomes (e.g., student learning)
  • Thorough and critical reviews that stimulate lively, thoughtful, topical, practical, and controversial discussion
  • Analysis of current policy trends influencing leadership preparation and development (e.g., political and contextual issues that impact leadership education such as state changes in teacher and principal evaluation systems, impact of Common Core Standards on programs, and/or other timely and relevant policy topics)
  • Inclusion of student voice through such mechanisms as the newly formed UCEA Graduate Student Council organization
  • International and comparative studies of leadership preparation pedagogy, programs, and professional development
Co Editors-in-Chief
Catherine Horn University of Houston, USA
April Peters-Hawkins University of Houston, USA
Co-Managing Editors
Alex Cortez University of Houston, USA
Amanda Kaste University of Houston, USA
Associate Editors
Katherine Cumings Mansfield University of North Texas, USA
Brad Davis University of Houston, USA
Steven Nelson University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Meredith Wronowski University of Dayton, USA
Editorial Board
Lauren Bailes University of Delaware, USA
Mónica Byrne-Jiménez Michigan State University, USA
Kathleen Cowin Washington State University, USA
Sarah Diem University of Missouri, USA
Tim Drake North Carolina State University, USA
Mark A. Gooden Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
Teresa Handy University of Arizona Global Campus, USA
Kevin L. Henry University of Wisconsin, USA
Wesley Henry Central Connecticut State University, USA
Beverly Irby Texas A&M University, USA
Lisa Kensler Auburn University, USA
Jonathan Lightfoot Hofstra University, USA
Chad Lochmiller Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Michael O'Malley Texas State University, USA
Azadeh Osanloo New Mexico State, USA
Derrick Robinson North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA
Karen Sanzo Old Dominion University, USA
John Yun Michigan State University, USA
  • ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
  • Educational Research Abstracts Online (T&F)
  • Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
  • OCLC: Electronic Collections Online
  • Scopus
  • Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.

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