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Kenneth Leithwood

Kenneth Leithwood

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Canada
2023

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
93
Citations
52295
World Ranking
147
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award
  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Kenneth Leithwood is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences and psychology, with a particular focus on education. Their research emphasizes educational leadership, teacher education, emotional intelligence, and organizational behavior in educational settings.

Leithwood's main fields of study include social sciences, with 12 publications, and psychology, with 5 publications. Subfields of their work incorporate education, social psychology, organizational behavior and human resource management, safety research, and developmental and educational psychology.

The primary topics covered in Leithwood's research feature teacher education and leadership studies, emotional intelligence and performance, education and critical thinking development, parental involvement in education, school choice and performance, leadership, courage and heroism studies, as well as job satisfaction and organizational behavior.

Recent papers authored by Leithwood include:

  • A Review of Evidence about Equitable School Leadership, 2021, Education Sciences
  • The Personal Resources of Successful Leaders: A Narrative Review, 2023, Education Sciences
  • Psychometric properties of the successful school leadership survey, 2023, Journal of Educational Administration
  • Academic Culture: Its Meaning, Measure and Contribution to Student Learning, 2024, Journal of School Leadership

Leithwood has published multiple articles in several prominent venues:

  • Education Sciences (3 publications)
  • Journal of Educational Administration (1 publication)
  • Journal of School Leadership (1 publication)
  • Education Law and Policy Briefs Journal (1 publication)

Collaborations with other researchers are a part of Leithwood's work, with frequent coauthors including Jingping Sun, Hua Cheng, Turgut Karaköse, Tijen Tülübaş, and Randall E. Schumacker.

Leithwood received the distinction of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007, recognized within the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Seven strong claims about successful school leadership

    Kenneth Leithwood;Alma Harris;David Hopkins

  • Review of Research: How Leadership Influences Student Learning

    Kenneth Leithwood;Karen Seashore Louis;Stephen Anderson;Kyla Wahlstrom

  • Changing leadership for changing times

    Kenneth Leithwood;Doris Jantz;Rosanne Steinbach

  • Leadership for School Restructuring

    Kenneth Leithwood

  • Seven strong claims about successful school leadership revisited

    Kenneth Leithwood;Alma Harris;David Hopkins

  • How leadership influences student learning.

    K Leithwood;KS Louis;S Anderson;K Wahlstrom

  • What We Know about Successful School Leadership

    Kenneth A. Leithwood;Carolyn Riehl

  • Successful School Leadership: What It Is and How It Influences Pupil Learning

    Kenneth Leithwood;Christopher Day;Pamela Sammons;Alma Harris

  • The Effects of Transformational Leadership on Organizational Conditions and Student Engagement with School.

    Kenneth Leithwood;Doris Jantzi

  • Transformational School Leadership for Large-Scale Reform: Effects on students, teachers, and their classroom practices

    Kenneth Leithwood;Doris Jantzi

  • The Move toward Transformational Leadership.

    Kenneth A. Leithwood

  • Linking Leadership to Student Learning: The Contributions of Leader Efficacy:

    Kenneth Leithwood;Doris Jantzi

  • A Review of Transformational School Leadership Research 1996–2005

    Kenneth Leithwood;Doris Jantzi

  • Second international handbook of educational leadership and administration

    K Leithwood;P Hallinger;G Furman;K Riley

  • Testing a Conception of How School Leadership Influences Student Learning

    Kenneth Leithwood;Sarah L. Patten;Doris Jantzi

  • How leadership influences student learning (Review of Research). New York: The Wallace Foundation.

    K Leithwood;K Louis;S Anderson;K Wahlstrom

  • Transformational leadership effects on teachers' commitment and effort toward school reform

    Femke Geijsel;Peter Sleegers;Kenneth Leithwood;Doris Jantzi

  • Collective Leadership Effects on Student Achievement

    Kenneth Leithwood;Blair Mascall

  • The Nature and Effects of Transformational School Leadership: A Meta-Analytic Review of Unpublished Research.

    Kenneth Leithwood;Jingping Sun

  • Transformational Leadership: How Principals Can Help Reform School Cultures

    Kenneth Leithwood;Doris Jantzi

  • How leadership influences student learning, Review of research

    Kenneth Leithwood;Karen Seashore Louis;Stephen Anderson;Kyla Wahlstrom

Frequent Co-Authors

Doris Jantzi
Doris Jantzi University of Toronto
Pam Sammons
Pam Sammons University of Oxford
Karen Seashore Louis
Karen Seashore Louis University of Minnesota
Alma Harris
Alma Harris Cardiff Metropolitan University
Philip Hallinger
Philip Hallinger Mahidol University
Michael Fullan
Michael Fullan University of Toronto
J. Bradley Cousins
J. Bradley Cousins University of Ottawa
Peter Sleegers
Peter Sleegers University of Twente
Allan David Walker
Allan David Walker Education University of Hong Kong
Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy Vanderbilt University

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