ABSTRACT The field of educational leadership has yet to develop a coherent knowledge base that reflects the global diversity of policies and practices. This disconnect – for example between Asian and Western research, presents a major challenge, curtailing authentic knowledge production and transfer. Accordingly, a major objective for the field is the creation of a cross-culturally valid knowledge base with global relevance. This conceptual paper addresses the phenomenon of global knowledge construction in educational leadership and the challenges of achieving coherence and connectivity between bodies of research from diverse politico-socio-cultural settings. In achieving greater connectivity between Asian and Western educational leadership research, a cross-cultural comparative approach is advocated. A comparatively informed universal knowledge base would highlight current ethnocentricity characterizing the field, and the socio-cultural embeddedness of educational leadership. While acknowledging the benefits and challenges of such an approach, the paper advocates four types of cultural and cross-cultural comparative studies, namely, meta studies of large data sets, socio-educational studies placing leadership in a social milieu context; system reform studies based on initiatives to improve education systems; and indigenous studies of educational leadership reflecting the uniqueness of societal cultures. Finally, the paper suggests more robust research methods for achieving authentic cross-cultural connectivity across knowledge bases to secure authentic knowledge production and transfer.

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连接西方和亚洲教育领导力的研究和知识：采用跨文化比较视角

摘要 教育领导领域尚未建立一个连贯的知识库，以反映全球政策和实践的多样性。这种脱节——例如亚洲和西方研究之间的脱节，带来了重大挑战，限制了真实的知识生产和转移。因此，该领域的一个主要目标是创建具有全球相关性的跨文化有效知识库。这篇概念性论文解决了教育领导力中的全球知识建构现象，以及在来自不同政治-社会-文化背景的研究机构之间实现连贯性和连通性的挑战。为了实现亚洲和西方教育领导研究之间更大的联系，提倡跨文化比较方法。一个相对知情的通用知识库将突出当前该领域的种族中心主义，以及教育领导力的社会文化嵌入。在承认这种方法的好处和挑战的同时，本文提倡四种类型的文化和跨文化比较研究，即大数据集的元研究、将领导力置于社会环境背景下的社会教育研究；基于改善教育系统举措的系统改革研究；以及反映社会文化独特性的教育领导力本土研究。最后，本文提出了更稳健的研究方法，以实现跨知识库的真实跨文化连通性，以确保真实的知识生产和转移。