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Lyka R. Castillo
Bulacan State Universities
City of Malolos, Bulacan
xxxlykaxxx05@gmail.com

Abstract

Strategy and strategic leadership are critical issues for school leaders. However, strategy as a field of research has largely been overlooked within the educational leadership literature. Most of the theoretical and empirical work on strategy and strategic leadership over the past decades has been related to non-educational settings, and scholarship devoted to these issues in education is still minimal. The purpose of this scoping review was to provide a comprehensive overview of relevant research regarding strategy and strategic leadership, identifying any gaps in the literature that could inform future research agendas and evidence for practice. The scoping review is underpinned by the five-stage framework of Arksey and O’Malley. The results indicate that there is scarce literature about strategy and that timid steps have been made toward a more integrated and comprehensive model of strategic leadership. It is necessary to expand research into more complex, longitudinal, and explanatory ways due to a better understanding of these constructs. Strategic leadership is an ability by the leader to anticipate, prepare, and position for the future; it has also been observed to be the leader’s ability to anticipate, create a vision, empower others, and exercise flexibility to create a strategic and viable future of the organization. Leaders who are strategic leaders formulate the goals and strategies for the organization. They do this by developing structures and processes that impact the present and future performance of the organization.

Keywords: Strategy, strategic leadership, school leadership, scoping review, education.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.69651/PIJHSS0404635

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Castillo, L. R. (2025). Strategy and strategic leadership in education: A literature review. Pantao (The International Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences) 4 (4), 6920-6932. http://doi.org/10.69651/PIJHSS0404635

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