Courtney / McGinity / Gunter Educational Leadership

Theorising Professional Practice in Neoliberal Times
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-21736-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 198 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Studies in Educational Leadership, Management and Administration

Illuminates the crucial role of theory in educational leadership. Contributors employ theory distinctively to reveal the lived experiences of educational leaders in a time of marketisation, privatisation and modernisation. This theorised research speaks to an international audience, and challenges the anti-theorising of much recent reform, where ‘what works’ is privileged over gaining critical insights into power. The book will make a unique contribution to the field through the Critical Studies in Educational Leadership, Management and Administration series by shifting the focus from particular theorists to the nature and use of theory in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Courtney, Steven J

Courtney, Steven

McGinity, Ruth

Gunter, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction 2 Using gender theories to surface discourses of headteacher compliance and transgression 3 The Disenfranchised Educational Leader: Struggles with compromise, ethical and values-led understandings of what it is to be educated 4 Playing the school leadership game: alternative performances 5 Negotiating meaning in multiple communities of practice: Reconciliation and dis- identification in the identity work of headteachers leaving Anglican primary schools 6 Leaders and the will of others: A Magical Marxist analysis of distributed leadership in one school’s engagement with the community 7 Discourse and governmentality in an English school considering academy status 8 Becoming professional: A governmentality approach to understanding the remaking of governors under neoliberalism 9 Hannah Arendt, judgement, and school leadership 10 Responses to racism in Black and South Asian headteachers in the UK: The role of Generational Consciousness 11 Researching and theory: The ‘conversations’ of ethical agents? 12 Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Courtney is Lecturer in Management and Leadership at University of Manchester, UK.

Ruth McGinity is Lecturer in Educational Leadership and Policy at University of Manchester, UK.

Helen Gunter is Professor of Education Policy at University of Manchester, UK.