ABSTRACT
In this chapter, our primary charge is to present an update on the scholarship on leadership preparation. We pick up where the last edition of the Handbook (Young, Crow, Murphy, & Ogawa, 2009) left off, which was roughly around 2006. Our work builds upon the prior efforts by Kottkamp and Rusch (2009) and McCarthy and Forsyth (2009) in the previous edition. Like Kottkamp and Rusch, we extend prior research reviews (e.g., Murphy & Vriesenga, 2006) through a nontraditional approach. Instead of summarizing published research, these authors analyzed papers from two major annual research conferences (American Educational Research Association and University Council for Educational Administration [UCEA]) and doctoral dissertations completed between 1985 and 2006. Their goal was to gain a sense of the direction scholarship on school leadership was headed. The result was the identification of 12 distinct content areas, each of which resembled course titles typical of leadership preparation programs.
