Leadership as Lunacy: And Other Metaphors for Educational Leadership

About Fenwick W. EnglishJacky Lumby

Jacky Lumby (Ph.D. University of Leicester) is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education at the University of Southampton UK. She has taught and led in a range of educational settings including secondary/high schools community and further/technical education. She has also worked for a Training and Enterprise Council with a regional responsibility for developing leaders across the public and private sectors. She has researched and published widely on educational policy leadership and management in schools and colleges in the UK and internationally. Her work on leadership encompasses a range of perspectives including diversity issues comparative and international perspectives and leading upper secondary education. She has co-edited International handbook on the preparation and development of school leaders (2008). Her most recent book is with Marianne Coleman Leadership and Diversity: Challenging Theory and Practice in Education (2007). She is co- editor of the journal International Studies in Educational Administration and a member of the Council of the British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society. Fenwick W. English (Ph.D.) is the R. Wendell Eaves Senior Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a position he has held since 2001. As a scholar/practitioner he has held positions as a school principal and superintendent of schools in California and New York and as a department chair dean and vice-chancellor of academic affairs at universities in Ohio and Indiana. He is the former President of the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) and of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA). His research has been reported in national and international academic forums. He edited the 2006 SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration the 2009 SAGE Library of Educational Thought and Practice: Educational Leadership and Administration; and the 2011 SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership (2nd Ed.). In 2013 he received the Living Legend Award from NCPEA for his lifetime contribution to the field of educational leadership.