1st Edition

Exploring the Affective Dimensions of Educational Leadership Psychoanalytic and Arts-based Methods

By Alysha Farrell Copyright 2020
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Bridging the gap between academic parlance and arts-based inquiry, this unique text presents a socio-affective exploration of educational leadership. The text challenges inherited ideological and normative assumptions and invites its reader to reimagine leadership as a dynamic, emotional, and relational process. Exploring the Affective Dimensions of Educational Leadership combines the... Read more

List of Photos



List of Poems



List of Plays



List of Episodes





Preface



Acknowledgements





Introduction





Part One: Affect as a Shadow in the Field of Leadership





Fantasies of Objectivity



Affect Shadows



Psychoanalytic Shadows



Beauty Shadows





Part Two: Dancing with the Unconscious – Relational Affective Forces





You Bring Something Out in Me



This Feels Familiar



Memoirists



Ghosts



In Your Dreams





Part Three: Communicative Bodies in Sensuous Encounters





Word Play



Narcissistic Signalling



Denial of Loss



Confession



Living with the Paradox



The Unbidden



Recognition





Part Four: Relational Leadership as Socio-aesthetic Inquiry





Staging Educational Leadership as Psychoanalytic Theatre



Images of Practice



Arts-Based Research



The Field of Educational Leadership



Conclusion as Distillation





References

Biography

Alysha Farrell is Assistant Professor in Department of Educational Leadership and Administration and the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Brandon University, Canada.