1st Edition

On Educational Leadership as Emancipatory Practice Problems and Promises

By Duncan Waite Copyright 2022
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

As a critical reflection on education and educational leadership today, this book makes use of the ideas of some of the major thinkers of our time—Adorno, Arendt, Biesta, Brown, Apple, Hall, Marx, Nietzsche, Rancière, Said, Williams, and others—in an examination of the emancipatory potential of education. Author Duncan Waite explores the political, social, systemic, epistemological, and cultural... Read more

1. By Way of an Introduction  2. Contextual Considerations Considered Differently  3. On the Shortcomings of Our Organizational Forms  4. The Imperium: Class, Caste, and Control  5. Imperial Hubris: The Dark Heart of Leadership  6. Notes Towards a Conclusion

Biography

Duncan Waite is Professor of Education and Community Leadership at Texas State University, USA, and Editor of the International Journal of Leadership in Education.