1st Edition

Educational Leadership as a Culturally-Constructed Practice New Directions and Possibilities

Edited By Jane Wilkinson, Laurette Bristol Copyright 2018
220 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited book collection disrupts received notions of educational leadership, culture and diversity as currently portrayed in practice and theory. It draws on compelling studies of educational leadership from the global north and south, as well as from a range of ethnic, religious and gendered perspectives and critical research approaches. In so doing, the book powerfully challenges... Read more
INTRODUCTION (Jane Wilkinson and Laurette Bristol)
CHAPTER ONE: The Unexamined Constructions of Educational Leadership (Jane Wilkinson and Laurette Bristol)
CHAPTER TWO: Beyond Culture as Ethnicity: Interrogating the Empirical Sites for Leading Scholarship (Laurette Bristol and Jane Wilkinson)
CHAPTER THREE: The Role of Ethical Practices in Pursuing Socially Just Leadership (Amanda Keddie and Richard Niesche)
CHAPTER FOUR: ‘We’re Going to Call Our Kids “African Aussies”’: Leading for Diversity in Regional Australia (Jane Wilkinson)
CHAPTER FIVE: Is she in the Wrong Place? Exploring the Intersections of Gender, Religion, Culture and Leadership (Saeeda Shah)
CHAPTER SIX: Exploring the Successful School Leadership Literature in China (Quian Haiyan, Allan Walker and Li Jiacheng)
CHAPTER SEVEN: Indigenist Holistic Educational Leadership (Zane Ma Rhae)
CHAPTER EIGHT: Communicating Research: A Challenge of Context (Launcelot Brown, Laurette Bristol and Talia Esnard)
CHAPTER NINE: Practice Traditions of Researching Educational Leadership Across National Contexts (Jane Wilkinson, Karin Rönnerman. Laurette Bristol and Petri Salo)
CHAPTER TEN: Conduct Un/becoming: Discipline in the Context of Educational Leadership Research (Vonzell Agosto and Zorka Karanxha)
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Left Out: Gender and Feminism in the Educational Leadership Curriculum (Michelle D. Young, Catherine Marshall and Torrie Edwards)
CHAPTER TWELVE: Commentary: Leadership as a Relational Practice in Contexts of Cultural Hybridity (Jill Blackmore)

Biography

Jane Wilkinson is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership in the Faculty of Education, Monash University and Associate Dean, Graduate Research.

Laurette Bristol is the Director-Academic Services at UWI School of Business and Applied Studies Ltd (UWI-ROYTEC- http://www.roytec.edu/), Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies.