1. Introduction: Why an International Handbook on the Preparation and Development of School Leaders?
I. Concepts of Leadership and its Development
2. The Nature and Specialized Purposes of Educational Leadership
3. Leadership and Culture
4. A Life and Career Based Framework for the Study of Leaders in Education: Problems, Possibilities and Prescriptions
5. Effects of Leadership on Student Academic/Affective Achievement
6. Race and Racism in Leadership Development
7. Gender and Leadership Development
II. The Practice of Leadership Development
9. School Development and School Leader Development: New Learning Opportunities for School Leaders and Their Schools
10. The Recruitment and Selection of School Leaders
11. Curriculum and Pedagogy
12. Mentoring and Coaching Programs for the Professional Development of School Leaders
13. Evaluation of School Principals
14. Understanding and Assessing the Impact of Leadership Development
III. International Reflections
15. Leadership Preparation and Development in North America
16. Leadership Development in Latin America
17. Leadership Development in Europe
18. School Leadership Development in Africa
19. Preparing and Developing School Leaders in the Middle East: Towards Mediating Westernization with Indigenous and Evidence-Based Practice and Theories of Educative Leadership
20. Leader Development Across Three Chinese Societies
21. Professional Learning of School Leaders in Australia
22. Leadership Development in Small Island States
