1st Edition

Challenges facing Education Leadership in the Shadow of War International and Multicultural Perspectives from Zones of Conflict

Edited By Mary Gutman Copyright 2025
210 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This incredibly timely volume offers insight into how educational leadership is managed, demonstrated, and enacted in zones of conflict, underlining the pivotal role educational leadership plays in peacebuilding and conflict-resolution efforts internationally. Employing qualitative, quantitative, and theoretical methodologies, as well as on-the-ground lived experiences and empirical case... Read more

Introduction |  Mary Gutman

Part 1: Educational Leadership of Resilience in Specific Conflict Zones and Communities

Chapter 1: Leadership of Kindergarten Teachers in the Old City of Jerusalem: Fostering Resilience and Creating a Secure Climate in Early Education | Tamar Haimov and Mary Gutman

Chapter 2: Kindergarten Teachers' Leadership, Difficulties, and Actions Taken during the 2023/2024 Israel-Hamas War | Yael Cohen-Azaria

Chapter 3: Educational Leadership during Crisis: Ultra-Orthodox Teachers in a Secular Education System during the Iron Swords War  | Vered Elimelech and Yehudit Chassida

Chapter 4: Coping and Resilience Resources among School Principals in the Arab-Bedouin Education System in the shadow of the Swords of Iron War | Haled Al-Said, Aref Abu-Gweder and Haya Kaplan

Chapter 5: Bottom-up Educational Leadership in Rural Communities in the Northern Israeli Periphery During the Iron Swords War | Yael Grinshtain and Orit Degani-Dinisman

Part 2: Decision-Making Leadership Practices in Maintaining Educational Continuity During Wars and Security Risk

Chapter 6: Educational Leadership in the Midst of a Multilevel Crisis Event: Insights from Wartime Podcasts | Dafna Granit- Dgani and Gal Ben-Yehudah

Chapter 7: Emergency Responses of the Ukrainian Education System to the Full-Scale Russian Invasion | Liliia Hrynevych

Chapter 8: Doing Responsibility in Times of War and Insecurity: Processes of Responsibilization in Educational Leadership| Britta Breser

Chapter 9: Navigating Crisis in Special Education - Establishing Hotel-Based Field Schools for War Evacuees in Israel | Shoshana Fox and Mary Gutman

Chapter 10: An Internal Community Education System During an Emergency: An Auto-Ethnography of the Israel-Gaza War | Ayala Perez-Benhaiem

Part 3: Educational Leadership of Inclusion for War- Refugee Students 

Chapter 11: Educational Leadership and Integration Support for Refugee Children from Ukraine in German Schools in 2022-2024 | Galyna Nesterenko

Chapter 12: Educational and Social Integration Challenges of Ukrainian Refugee Students in Würzburg, Germany | Nataliia Lazebna Elena Dieser and Kateryna Lut

Chapter 13: Moving Between Two Wars and Identities: How Israeli School Leaders Raise the Morale of War-Refugee Students from Russia and Ukraine | Mary Gutman

Chapter 14: Homegrown Educational Leadership in Forced Russian-origin Migrant Society: The Case of Georgia | Olga Veselovskaya, Ekaterina Sokolova, Diana Saitova and Vladimir Kozlov

Part 4: Leadership in Rebuilding Educational Systems after the Resolution of a Prolonged Conflict

Chapter 15: Critical Educational Bricolage in Times of Prolonged Conflict: Toward a Theory of Recognition for Restoration | Charles L. Lowery

Chapter 16: K-12 Women Educational Leaders of Pakistan: Embracing Resilience in Unstable Post-War Times | Elizabeth C. Orozco Reilly

Chapter 17: Restoring Educational Leadership Despite Being in Afghanistan: A Tale of Dark Times | Shazia Rehman Khan

Chapter 18: Modern Education and its Enemies in Afghanistan – an Analytical, Historical Review to Inform the Future | Mohammad Jawid Salihi, Mohammad Baqer Zaki, Stefanie Harscha and Uwe H. Bittlingmayera

Chapter 19: Teaching after the War: Lessons from Educators after the Second World War in Norway | Aslaug Kristiansen

Conclusions and Implications | Mary Gutman

Biography

Mary Gutman is a researcher, teacher educator, and lecturer in the Master’s program for Management and Organization of Education Systems, Michlalah Jerusalem College, Israel.