1st Edition

Educational Leadership and Nancy Fraser

By Jill Blackmore Copyright 2016
168 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

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 pragmatic reconciliation between feminist, neo-Marxist, critical and post-structuralist theories.... Read more

Contents

Series foreword

1 Introducing Nancy Fraser

2 From state managed to transnational capitalism: Fraser, feminism and the field of educational administration and leadership

3 Educational inequality, parental choice and school governance

4 The gender politics of educational leadership

5 Addressing social justice dilemmas: the case of male teachers and alternative provision of education – Martin Mills

6 Conclusion: Fraser’s thinking tools and socially just education

7 Annotated bibliography

References

Index

Biography

Jill Blackmore is Alfred Deakin Professor of Education at Deakin University, Australia.