Charles Webber

Professional appointment:  Professor

Professional profile: Charles F. Webber is a Professor in the Department of Education, Mount Royal University. He is a teacher and researcher who served as a classroom teacher and school principal in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. Following a move to higher education, he has held appointments as a Professor and Dean in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary.

Areas of scholarship: 

• Teacher leadership

• The principalship

• Student assessment

• Higher education administration and leadership. in Canada

Teaching foci: 

• Teacher education

• Educational leadership

Selected Publications:

Webber, C.F. (in press). Grounding teacher leadership in the politics of the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta. International Journal of Teacher Leadership.

Nickel, J., & Webber, C.F. (2025). Enabling teacher leadership through educational entrepreneurship. International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 21(3),1-19. https://doi.org/10.22230/ijepl.2025v21n3a1613

Webber, C.F., Nickel, J., Hamilton, S., & Braunberger, D. (2024). Contextualised shared leadership: A Canadian case study. School Leadership and Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2024.2303636 

Webber, C.F. (2023). Teacher leaders: Profiles of difference and conviction. Leading and Managing 29(1), 84-93. https://www.acel.org.au/ACELWEB/Publications/Leading_and_Managing/2023/LM_29_1.aspx  

Webber, C.F. (Ed.). (2023). Teacher leadership in international contexts. The Netherlands: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25763-6 

Degrees:

PhD, University of Oregon

MEd, University of Oregon

BEd, University of Calgary

Email address: cfwebber@mtroyal.ca

ORCiD:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8093-5118