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Deniz Orucu

Associate Professor in Educational Leadership and Management, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Biography

Deniz joined the 海角黑料 as an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Management in September 2023. Before joining the 海角黑料, she had worked in various academic and administrative capacities as a faculty member, researcher, and the Chair of Educational Administration Division at Baskent University in Turkey for over 25 years. Her research and teaching focuses on epistemology and theories of educational administration, educational policy, social justice leadership, refugee education, culturally relevant school leadership, educational leadership within challenging school settings, higher education and privatization of education. She led various national and international funded research projects in Turkey and the UK. She acts as an assistant editor in International Journal of Leadership on Education and undertakes various roles in the advisory boards of peer-reviewed journals such as JEA and REAL. She holds an appointment of a Co-convenor in Network 26 (Educational Leadership) of European Educational Research Association (EERA). Previously in Turkey, she contributed to numerous teacher and school leader training programs of the Ministry of National Education in addition to providing consultancy to local schools.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

脰r眉c眉, D. (2023). Crises and traumas: Challenges for leadership in education. In P.Woods, A. Roberts, M.Tian &H. Youngs (eds.) . Elgar Handbook of Leadership in Education, Edward Elgar Publishing.Elgar Handbooks in Education, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Arar, K &脰r眉c眉, D (2021). A Foucauldian analys谋s of culturally relevant educat谋onal leadership for refugees as newcomers. In F.English (Ed). . Springer

Arar, K., 脰r眉c眉, D., & Mahfouz, J. (2022). Social in/justice and double marginality in educational leadership: Trajectories of three female school principals from the Middle East. In Victoria Showunmi, Pontso Moorosi, Charol Shakeshaft, Izhar Oplatka. Bloomsbury Handbook in Gender Educational Leadership and Management

Arar, K., 脰r眉c眉, D., & Wilkinson, J. (2021). . London: Routledge

脰r眉c眉, D &Arar, K. (2021). Challenges of School Principals and Teachers in Private Schools: Comparison of Turk谋sh and Palestenian Cases. In Arar, K, 脰r眉c眉, D &Wilkinson, J (Eds). Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict Exploring Challenges Across the Globe. (pp. 13-28). London: Routledge

Arar, K., 脰r眉c眉, D., & Mahfouz, J. (2020). A Comparison of Social Justice Leadership Meaning and Praxis: The interplay of Unique Social Cultural Contexts in Turkish, Palestinian and Lebanese High Needs Schools, In: B, Barnett & P, Woods. (eds.), , Charlotte: Information Age Publishing.

脰r眉c眉, D. (2019 ). There is always a light at the end of the tunnel: Emotions of a Turkish school leader in a Syrian Refugee School. In Oplatka, I &Arar, K. (Eds). .(pp. 193-212) . London: EMERALD Publishing

Arar, K., & 脰r眉c眉, D. (2022, Online First). Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, doi. 17411432221136404.

Arar, K., & Orucu, D. (2022 Online First). The research on educational leadership for refugees since 2009: an international systemic review of empirical evidence. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 1-37.

Arar, K., 脰r眉c眉, D., & G眉m眉艧, S. (2022 Online First). Educational leadership and policy studies in refugee education: a systematic review of existing research. Educational Review, 1-25.

脰r眉c眉, D., & Kutlug眉n, H. E. Navigating the Covid 19 Turbulence in Higher Education: Evidence from Turkish Faculty Members. Research in Educational Administration and Leadership(REAL), 7(3), 597-631.

Arar, K., & 脰r眉c眉, D. (2021). Rethinking Educational Leadership and Policy in Schools in Challenging Circumstances: Inter/Intra-Continental Perspectives. Editorial Introduction Leadership and Policy in Schools, 20(1), 1-5.

脰r眉c眉, D., Arar, K., & Mahfouz, J. (2021). Three Contexts as The Post-Migration Ecology For Refugees: School Principals' Challenges And Strategies In Turkey, Lebanon, And Germany. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 20(1), 41-56.

Arar, K., 应r眉c眉, D., & Waite, D. (2020). Understanding leadership for refugee education: Introduction to the special issue. International Journal of Leadership in Education. 23(1), 1-6.

Arar, K., 脰r眉c眉, D., & Ak K眉莽眉k莽ay谋r, G. (2019). Culturally relevant school leadership for Syrian refugee students in challenging circumstances. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 47(6), 960-979.

Kondakci, Y., 脰r眉c眉, D., Oguz, E., & Beycioglu, K. (2019). Large-scale change and survival of school principals in Turkey. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 51(4), 301-315

Teaching Summary

Deniz is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and taught a vast variety of courses and modules across different teacher and school leader preparation programs at BA, MA and PhD… read more

Research Summary

Deniz's research focuses mainly on diversity, equity, and inclusion in K-12 from an educational leadership and policy perspective, the epistemology of educational leadership and management as a… read more

Deniz is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and taught a vast variety of courses and modules across different teacher and school leader preparation programs at BA, MA and PhD levels. She currently teaches a variety of Educational Leadership modules at MA level and supervises PhD Research in Educational Leadership, Policy and Management. She is also the Module Leader for Leading Learning in the MA in Educational Leadership Course. She has a long history of curriculum design in higher education contexts.

Current Research

Deniz's research focuses mainly on diversity, equity, and inclusion in K-12 from an educational leadership and policy perspective, the epistemology of educational leadership and management as a field, social justice and culturally relevant school leadership for educational change and school leaders' policy mediation practices at school level, educational policy and leadership in refugee education settings. Moreover, she is concerned with critical comparative research dealing with educational sociology, policy and leadership.

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