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Critical Studies in Educational Leadership, Management and Administration


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This series brings major theorists from the social and political sciences to critical studies of educational leadership, management and administration. The books provide accessible introductions to key theories combined with explanations of what they offer that will deepen, enliven and enrich studies of schools, further and higher education and adult and community education settings.

Topics covered are those which affect the everyday practices of leaders - social justice, media, markets, surveillance, values, communication, entrepreneurialism, risk management and accountability. The series provides theoretical and methodological resources for those who engaged in formal study of educational leadership, management and administration. It also offers alternative approaches to naming, framing and acting for those who are engaged in the practice of educational leadership, management or administration, or who are providing training and policy for practising educational leaders.

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Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration

Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Amanda McKay, Pat Thomson, Jill Blackmore
April 30, 2024

This edited volume brings together a range of perspectives on Educational Leadership, Management and Administration (ELMA) and various theories of resistance or compliance along with how policy and politics play out in school communities. The book makes a significant contribution to debates around ...

Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci The Organising of Ideas

Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci: The Organising of Ideas

1st Edition

By Howard Stevenson
November 17, 2023

This insightful book explores the life and ideas of Italian Marxist theoretician Antonio Gramsci, and argues his work has considerable contemporary relevance when re-considering educational leadership in today’s age of crises. Gramsci’s theory of hegemony has provided an invaluable intellectual ...

Feminist Perspectives on Contemporary Educational Leadership

Feminist Perspectives on Contemporary Educational Leadership

1st Edition

By Kay Fuller
May 31, 2023

This timely book explores how various feminist perspectives fruitfully explain women’s experience of educational leadership, drawing on a contemporary conceptualisation of fourth-wave feminism that is intersectional and inclusive. The book asks which and whose feminist theory is used to explain ...

Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration through Actor-Network Theory

Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration through Actor-Network Theory

1st Edition

By Paolo Landri
May 30, 2022

Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration through Actor-Network Theory presents how actor-network theory (ANT) and the related vocabularies have much to offer to a critical re-imagination of the dynamics of management in education and educational leadership. It extends the growing ...

Educational Leadership Theorising Professional Practice in Neoliberal Times

Educational Leadership: Theorising Professional Practice in Neoliberal Times

1st Edition

Edited By Steven Courtney, Ruth McGinity, Helen Gunter
March 31, 2021

Educational Leadership brings together innovative perspectives on the crucial role of theory and theorising in educational leadership at a time when the multiple pressures of marketisation, competition and system fragmentation dominate the educational landscape. This original and highly ...

Theorising Identity and Subjectivity in Educational Leadership Research

Theorising Identity and Subjectivity in Educational Leadership Research

1st Edition

Edited By Richard Niesche, Amanda McKay
March 17, 2020

Theorising Identity and Subjectivity in Educational Leadership Research brings together a range of international scholars to examine identity and subjectivities in educational leadership in new and original ways. The chapters draw on a variety of approaches in theory and method to demonstrate the ...

Educational Leadership and Pierre Bourdieu

Educational Leadership and Pierre Bourdieu

1st Edition

By Pat Thomson
June 28, 2018

Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He argued for, and practiced, rigorous and reflexive scholarship, interrogating the inequities and injustices of modern societies. Through a lifetime’s explication of the ways in which schooling both produces and ...

Educational Leadership and Nancy Fraser

Educational Leadership and Nancy Fraser

1st Edition

By Jill Blackmore
December 21, 2017

Drawing on the work of Nancy Fraser, this book offers a critical view of contemporary educational leadership and reform discourses, exploring how her key concepts of redistribution, recognition and representation may apply to social and therefore educational justice. Fraser offers a political and ...

Deconstructing Educational Leadership Derrida and Lyotard

Deconstructing Educational Leadership: Derrida and Lyotard

1st Edition

By Richard Niesche
June 08, 2015

Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard constitute two of the most notable figures of poststructuralist thought and philosophy of the postmodern period. Both worked to reveal instabilities and uncertainty, and to destabilise assumptions and self-evident traditions for the purposes of reflection, ...

Educational Leadership and Hannah Arendt

Educational Leadership and Hannah Arendt

1st Edition

By Helen M. Gunter
June 08, 2015

The relationship between education and democratic development has been a growing theme in debates focussed upon public education, but there has been little work that has directly related educational leadership to wider issues of freedom, politics and practice. Engaging with ELMA through the work of...

Educational Leadership and Michel Foucault

Educational Leadership and Michel Foucault

1st Edition

By Donald Gillies
June 08, 2015

Drawing from the ideas of Michel Foucault, this book offers a critical examination of today’s dominant discourse of educational leadership. Foucault’s understanding of critique is as a ‘permanent’ ethos in which humans explore the nature of their existence but at the same time query the limits ...

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