1st Edition

Deconstructing Educational Leadership Derrida and Lyotard

By Richard Niesche Copyright 2014
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

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, creativity and innovative thinking. This significant volume explores the key concepts central to the... Read more

1: Introducing Derrida and Lyotard  2: Why Bring Derrida and Lyotard to ELMA?  3: A Lyotardian Politics of the Standards Movement in Educational Leadership  4: Managing Performance: The Implementation of the English Health Schools Programme Pat Thomson and Vanessa Hayward  5: Witnessing Deconstructions of the Leader-follower Binary in ELMA  6: Limitations and Critiques of Derrida and Lyotard  7: Further Reading and Resources

Biography

Richard Niesche is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Education at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.