1st Edition

New Directions in Educational Leadership Theory

Edited By Scott Eacott, Colin Evers Copyright 2016
130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

Educational leadership has a rich history of epistemological debate. From the ‘Theory Movement’ of the 1950-1960s, through to Greenfield’s critique of logical empiricism in the 1970s, the emergence of Bates’ and Foster’s Critical Theory of educational administration in the 1980s, and Evers’ and Lakomski’s naturalistic coherentism from1990 to the present time, debates about ways of knowing,... Read more

Introduction – New Frontiers in Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Theory Scott Eacott and Colin Evers

1. Problematising the Intellectual Gaze of the Educational Administration Scholar Scott Eacott

2. Toward an Ontology of Practices in Educational Administration: Theoretical implications for research and practice Paul Newton and Augusto Riveros

3. Practice Theory: Viewing leadership as leading Jane Wilkinson and Stephen Kemmis

4. Thematic Approach to Theoretical Speculations in the Field of Educational Administration Jae Park

5. Advocating a Post-structuralist Politics for Educational Leadership Richard Niesche and Christina Gowlett

6. Leadership in a Performative Context: A framework for decision-making Stephanie Chitpin and Ken Jones

7. Naturalism and Educational Administration: New directions Colin W. Evers and Gabriele Lakomski

Biography

Scott Eacott is Senior Lecturer, and Director of the Office of Educational Leadership, in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.

Colin W. Evers is Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.