Prof. Colin Evers
University of New South Wales, Australia
Professor of Educational Leadership
School of Education
University of New South Wales, Australia
- Prior appointment: Professor of Education at The University of Hong Kong
- Research interests include educational leadership, administration and policy, philosophy of education, and research methodology; his interest in research methodology flows from a perspective on epistemology that is naturalistic and coherentist
- Currently, co-editing a Special Issue of the journal, Comparative Education devoted to an examination of the relationship between Confucian heritage cultures and methodology
- Journal Co-editor International Studies in Educational Administration (1999 – 2006)
- Published around seven books, including: Leadership for Quality Schooling: International Perspectives (Routledge/Falmer, London), Doing Educational Administration (Pergamon Press, Oxford), Exploring Educational Administration, (Pergamon Press, Oxford), Educational Administration: An Australian Perspective, (Allen & Unwin, Sydney), Knowing Educational Administration, (Pergamon Press, Oxford) and others
- Special issues of journals: Comparative Education (2011); Journal of Educational Administration (2001); Educational Administration Quarterly (1996); Educational Philosophy and Theory (1987)
