1st Edition
Foucault and Educational Leadership Disciplining the Principal
By Richard Niesche
Copyright 2011
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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School principals are increasingly working in an environment of work intensification, high stakes testing, accountability pressures and increased managerialism. Rather than searching for the latest leadership fad or best practice model, this book suggests that in order to better understand these pressures, the work of educational leadership requires more sophisticated theorisation of these... Read more
1. Introduction 2. A Foucauldian Toolbox for Educational Leadership 3. Discourses of Educational Leadership 4. Disciplinary Regimes under Self-Governance 5. Leading and Managing as Ethical Work 6. ‘Doing’ Leadership Differently
Biography
Richard Niesche is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia, where he teaches and conducts research in the areas of educational leadership, social justice and Indigenous education.
