Educational leadership in higher education: a scientific literature review

e-ISSN : 2279-0837Nowadays leadership became one of the most popular subjects for research field. Leader is a person who holds superior power which enables him/her to influence, lead and control people around. The main purpose of this article is to highlight and review literature of an educational leadership in a higher education. The importance of this article is to understand what sort of problems educational leadership research is facing nowadays as well as what are the innovative leader perspectives in the educational leadership. Thus, it is important to discuss more about leadership in higher education and the most relevant question is what are the trends in educational leadership in higher education from literature review perspective? Looking from a lifelong learning perspective it has been noted that learning how to be a leader or how to lead your organization is a life long experience, which starts at an early student stage and continues until you are a teacherEdukologijos tyrimų institutasSocialinių mokslų fakultetasVytauto Didžiojo universiteta