ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to explore the development of the knowledge base on middle leadership in schools. Since the seminal reviews conducted by Bennett a contemporary scan only of the scholarly literature on middle leaders/leadership in schools has not been undertaken. Consequently, this article looks at outputs relating to this topic by examining research papers indexed in the Web of Science and in SCOPUS between 2003 and 2017. The prime purpose of this review is to offer some reflections on the development of the empirical base on middle leadership in schools since 2003 and to highlight some of the implications for future research. The article concludes that middle leadership in schools remains an ongoing focus of research inquiry in a growing number of countries but suggests that the knowledge base would benefit from more sophisticated empirical studies and greater theoretical analysis.

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学校中层领导和中层领导：探索知识库（2003–2017）

摘要本文旨在探讨学校中层领导者知识库的发展。自贝内特（Bennett）进行开创性审查以来，仅对当代有关学校中层领导/领导的学术文献进行了扫描。因此，本文通过研究2003年至2017年间在Web of Science和SCOPUS中索引的研究论文，研究了与该主题相关的输出。本文的主要目的是对基于中层领导力的经验基础的发展提供一些思考。自2003年以来一直在学校中学习，并强调了对未来研究的某些意义。