ABSTRACT

This review of research used science mapping to document European literature in the field of educational leadership and management (EDLM) and assess the extent to which there is a distinctive ‘European niche’ in this field. The review documents the volume, growth trajectory, and geographic distribution of EDLM scholarship and analyzes the intellectual structure and key topics studied in this literature. The authors identified 1,039 articles authored in continental European societies that had been published in 22 Scopus-indexed, EDLM journals. Bibliographic data associated with these articles were exported from Scopus and analyzed using Excel and VOSviewer programs. The review identified a robust European literature distinguished by 4 Schools of Thought. Two of these, ‘School Improvement and School Effectiveness’, and the ‘Social-Economic Effects of Education’ evidenced strong contributions from European scholars. Our results provide a baseline for future reviews of this literature and a basis for benchmarking the European literature against other regional literatures in EDLM from around the world.

摘要

这项研究综述使用科学制图记录了教育领导和管理（EDLM）领域中的欧洲文献，并评估了该领域中与众不同的“欧洲利基”的程度。审查记录了EDLM奖学金的数量，增长轨迹和地理分布，并分析了该文献研究的知识结构和关键主题。作者确定了在欧洲大陆社会撰写的1,039篇文章，这些文章已在22种以Scopus索引的EDLM期刊中发表。与这些文章相关的书目数据是从Scopus导出的，并使用Excel和VOSviewer程序进行了分析。审查确定了以四所思想流派为代表的强大的欧洲文学。其中两个是“学校改善和学校效能”，而“教育的社会经济效应”证明了欧洲学者的强大贡献。我们的结果为将来对这些文献的回顾提供了基准，并为将欧洲文献与世界各地EDLM中的其他区域文献进行基准比较奠定了基础。