1st Edition

Educational Leadership and Policy in a Time of Precarity

138 Pages

by Routledge

138 Pages

by Routledge

138 Pages

by Routledge

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This book brings critical perspectives towards questions of how precarity and precariousness affect the work of leaders and educators in schools and universities around the world. It theorises the effects of precarity, and the experiences of educators working in precarious environments. The work of school improvement takes time. Developing a highly-skilled and confident teaching workforce... Read more

Introduction—Educational leadership and policy: precarity and precariousness
Amanda Heffernan and Jane Wilkinson

Theorising and preparing students for precarity: How can leaders and educators better prepare students to enter an increasingly insecure workforce?
Lucas Walsh and Joanne Gleeson
Creative industries curriculum design for living and leading amid uncertainty
Gail Crimmins, Briony Lipton, Joanna McIntyre, Margarietha de Villiers Scheepers and Peter English
Ethical responsibilities of tenured academics supervising non-tenured researchers in times of neoliberalism and precarity
Kathleen Smithers, Jess Harris, Mhorag Goff, Nerida Spina and Simon Bailey
Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: toeing the line and jumping through hoops
Meghan Stacey, Scott Fitzgerald, Rachel Wilson, Susan McGrath-Champ and Mihajla Gavin
Embracing vulnerability: how has the Covid-19 pandemic affected the pressures school leaders in Northern England face and how they deal with them?
Michael Jopling and Oliver Harness
Repositioned professionals and heterodox: a response to the precarity of reform in further education
Lewis Entwistle
Necessary risk: addressing precarity by re-envisioning teaching and learning
Jeanne M. Powers and Lok-Sze Wong