Abstract
Welcome to this special 40th Anniversary Edition of Educational Management Administration & Leadership. This issue features review papers from leading academics on six of the major and enduring themes in our field, and is timed to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of BELMAS (British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society), which owns the journal. EMAL’s first issue was published in June 1972 and it was initially published only twice a year, with the title of ‘Educational Administration’. It expanded to three issues a year in 1982, four in 1990 and six in 2009. BELMAS was founded just after the journal, an anomaly that is explained partly by the lead time taken to set up the Society, following initial discussions in 1970 (Glatter, 2004). This joint initiative may also be regarded as the start of the academic field of educational leadership and management in the UK. The articles in the journal may also be seen as a barometer for the changing emphases within the field over this 40 year period. We are grateful to Derek Glover, who has prepared a full content analysis of all EMAL volumes, to underpin this extended editorial. The analysis codes articles by decade, using four criteria:
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