Arab scholarship in educational administration, management and leadership: An overview

Abstract

Following in the tradition of systematic reviews of research, this paper reports the findings of an overview of Arab scholarship in educational administration, management and leadership. We first articulated a framework for analysis anchored to a proposed ‘scholarship maturity’ theoretical model then applied it to analyze 20 reviews of Arab scholarship in educational administration, management and leadership. The findings suggest that reviewing Arab scholarship in educational administration, management and leadership is an emerging segment of research that is growing steadily in line with the burgeoning volume of Arab research. Taken together, the findings give the impression that this line of inquiry is promising and has the potentials and capacity to develop. However, it is still lacking maturity and impact, which descriptions apply to the Arab scholarship in educational administration, management and leadership writ large. The paper concludes with the limitations, discussion and recommendations.