A REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Abstract

The purpose of the research was to examine the challenges in educational leadership. The methods employed for the study has been an exploratory research design with deductive approach and used a qualitative data as secondary sources. Sampling is carried out with a systematic review of those published and unpublished data and it focused on a literature review of 35 peer- reviewed journals, books, articles and research works as a longitudinal or time series of mainly 5 years data (2018 to 2022). By using a systematic review with that of a generalization of the existing approaches, the research findings deduced that the leadership styles in education is different from other sectors as there are many stakeholders in the field which strive for quality leadership and the transformational styles of leadership plays a predominate role to others as it encourages both the principal and the staff jointly to set the institution goals and endeavor to meet the performance.  At a concluding remark,  in this 21^st century organizations mostly require a good leadership that characterized by situations, behaviors, transformational and servant leadership styles as these encourage the participation of employees or followers, encourage ethics and work for mutually success. As a future direction, the author recommended that more of in-depth and field work research which makes a survey of institutional staff, students, parents of students, education bureau and quality or standard control office have to be taken.