The Policy-Practice Gap: Can Transformational Leadership Bridge The Divide?

Abstract

The phenomenon understudy was investigated while conducting the theoretical review. For this purpose, the available literature was reviewed comprehensively. This study contends that transformational leadership fills the gap in ensuring that policy reforms become sustainable practices that improve student outcomes, faculty development, and academic quality by fusing theory with case-based evidence. Concluding, as it is critical content analysis study, emphasizes the necessity of redefining the social sciences' borders by presenting transformational leadership as a multifaceted link between impersonal policy objectives and real educational reform. This study investigated the ways in which transformational leadership can serve as a driving force behind the harmonization of institutional practice and higher education policy.