TY - JOUR
T1 - A systematic review of research on educational leadership and management in South Africa
T2 - mapping knowledge production in a developing society
AU - Hallinger, Philip
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2019/5/4
Y1 - 2019/5/4
N2 - For much of the past 60 years, the ‘visible’ knowledge base consisted almost entirely of studies that described EDLM policies and practices from a relatively small number of Anglo-American societies. Over the past five years, reviews of research have revealed abundant evidence of rapidly increasing publication output from developing societies in Asia, Africa and Latin America. A recent review of Africa’s EDLM literature identified South Africa as a ‘positive outlier’ in knowledge production. The current review examined South Africa’s published EDLM scholarship in terms of its volume, growth over time, distribution across scholarly journals and authors, citation impact, as well as types of studies, research methods, conceptual models and topics. The database of sources for the review consisted of 292 EDLM articles published in English language journals up to the end of 2016. The review employed quantitative ‘topographical analysis’ aimed at describing key features of the African knowledge base in EDLM. Patterns in the topography of the South African literature identified in this review were also benchmarked against findings reported in reviews of research conducted in other societies and regions of the world.
AB - For much of the past 60 years, the ‘visible’ knowledge base consisted almost entirely of studies that described EDLM policies and practices from a relatively small number of Anglo-American societies. Over the past five years, reviews of research have revealed abundant evidence of rapidly increasing publication output from developing societies in Asia, Africa and Latin America. A recent review of Africa’s EDLM literature identified South Africa as a ‘positive outlier’ in knowledge production. The current review examined South Africa’s published EDLM scholarship in terms of its volume, growth over time, distribution across scholarly journals and authors, citation impact, as well as types of studies, research methods, conceptual models and topics. The database of sources for the review consisted of 292 EDLM articles published in English language journals up to the end of 2016. The review employed quantitative ‘topographical analysis’ aimed at describing key features of the African knowledge base in EDLM. Patterns in the topography of the South African literature identified in this review were also benchmarked against findings reported in reviews of research conducted in other societies and regions of the world.
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U2 - 10.1080/13603124.2018.1463460
DO - 10.1080/13603124.2018.1463460
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85046470291
SN - 1360-3124
VL - 22
SP - 315
EP - 333
JO - International Journal of Leadership in Education
JF - International Journal of Leadership in Education
IS - 3
ER -