Essay highlights the need for guidelines and mentorship to enhance critique in educational leadership journals, suggesting implications for intellectual evolution.
It is not enough just to encourage scholars to engage in critical commentary. As with typical journal submissions, specific guidelines are needed, along with journal editors’ willingness to mentor contributors. There are a number of scholarly dimensions needed if a field like educational leadership is to evolve intellectually: a reliance on historical knowledge; professional ethics that go beyond institutional IRB regulations; innovative research designs and methods; and critique. This essay, in response to an invitation, is itself meant to be invitational.
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