教育領導受到外、內在因素的衝擊，提供教育領導研究主題創新的契機。本文聚焦探討教育領導研究主題，從語意分析發現「教育領導研究」是包含學科、研究方法至研究成果等連續體的概念，情境分析顯示領導研究受科際整合、測量和資料分析等外部因素衝擊，並可見學科體系、理論和理念、譬喻、變項、分析層次和主題、研究取向和方法等成果與問題，另討論教育領導學發展目標、研究層次、研究觀點定位、學科發展假設、領導者假設、研究關注層面、研究焦點模式、領導相關概念等根本課題，進而提出雙向度的教育領導研究架構，以創新規劃可能的教育領導研究主題。

Educational leadership is impacted by various inner and outer factors. It is an opportunity to conduct innovation to study educational leadership. Therefore, "educational leadership studies" is a macro concept which performed as a continuum included with academic subject, research method and research outcome by semantic analysis. By situation analysis, leadership studies got various impacts from interdisciplinary search, development of measure and data analysis, and other outer factors. Some outcomes and problems in leadership studies about system of academic subject, theories and ideas, metaphors, variables, levels of analysis and themes, research approaches and methods, etc. were discussed. Moreover, some topics for educational leadership included goals of development, levels of research, viewpoints of research, assumptions for development of subject, assumptions for leader, interested domains, focused models in research, and related conceptions were illustrated. Finally a two-dimension framework for educational leadership studies was proposed to create some available research themes for educational leadership studies.