Janet Mola Okoko

Professional appointment: Associate Professor, Educational Administration, University of Saskatchewan Professional profile: Janet Mola Okoko is an Associate Professor in the department of Educational Administration, College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Her research focuses on school leadership preparation and development. She has used qualitative research approaches such as case studies, phenomenology, and phenomenography, with contextualized methods that incorporate interviews, focus group, mind mapping, transect walks, and photo elicitation, to study school leadership problems in various African countries and in Canada. She is currently studying ways of strengthening instructional leaders’ capacity for practitioner-oriented and technology mediated research, as well as school and system leaders’ work with culturally and linguistically diverse Newcomers/ Migrants. She has published work on school leadership preparation and development in Kenya, and on the experiences of Canadian school leaders with culturally diverse newcomers. In addition, she has co-authored work on a variety of qualitative research methods and a cross-cultural analysis of teacher leadership, and school principals’ preparation in Kenya, South Africa, and Canada. Her recent publications report on varieties of qualitative research methods; the framing of school leadership preparation and development for Kenya and the essence of school leaders’ work with culturally and linguistically diverse newcomer families in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Areas of scholarship:

School Leadership preparation and development
Teacher leadership
Leading schools with culturally and linguistically diverse newcomers,
Strengthening school leader competencies for practitioner oriented research that supports student learning.

Teaching foci:

Research Methods
Instructional leadership
Organizational theory
Community engagement and partnership

Selected publications:

Okoko, J .M (75%) & Chudoba, R.C ( 2025). The role of inter-organizational collaborations and

partnerships in leading K-12 education of ethnically and linguistically diverse newcomers. Journal of Professional Capital and Community https://doi.org/10.1108/JPCC-01-2025-0001

Okoko, J.M (80%) & Hellsten, L.M (2023). Teacher leadership and pedagogical

interventions aimed at improving learning outcomes for Girls in refugee and host Communities in Kenya. Leading and Managing -Journal of the Australian Council of Educational Leaders, 29 (2) https://www.acel.org.au/ACELWEB/Publications/Leading_and_Managing/2023/LM_29_2.aspx

Okoko, J.M., Scott, T., & Keith, W (2023). Varieties of Qualitative Research Methods:

Selected Contextual perspectives. Springer Education textbook series, Springer Nature https://link.springer.com/book/9783031043932

Webber, C, & Okoko, J. (2021). Exploring Teacher Leadership Across Cultures: Introduction to

Teacher Leadership. Research in Educational Administration and Leadership, 6 (1) , 1-15 . DOI: 10.30828/real/2021.1.1

Arden, C, & Okoko, J. (2021). Exploring Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Teacher Leadership

Among the Members of an International Research Team: A Phenomenographic Study. Research in Educational Administration and Leadership, 6 (1) , 51-90 . DOI: 10.30828/real/2021.1.3

Degrees: PhD, University of Calgary; MEd, Kenyatta University; BEd, Kenyatta University
Email address: janet.okoko@usask.ca
ORDiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1535-6793

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