1st Edition
Populism and Educational Leadership, Administration and Policy International Perspectives
List of tables
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: studying the relationship between populism and educational policy and administration internationally
Peter Milley and Eugenie A. Samier
PART I: Theoretical foundations in application
1. Educational populism as a policy configuration: the struggle against school absenteeism in France
Xavier Pons
2. Authoritarian populism, body politics, and the assault on gender studies: toward a new progressivism in education and society
James P. Burns, Colin D. Green and Jaime Nolan
3. Challenges facing educational leaders in an ethos of anti-intellectualism: populist leadership and the personalisation of power in Hungary
András B. Kocsis
4. Neoliberal crisis, the populist moment, and the challenge of educational leadership
Alexander J. Means and Kenneth J. Saltman
5. Populism on young people’s non-conforming behaviour as othering
Sari Vesikansa and Päivi Honkatukia
PART II: Teaching issues
6. Getting political: exploring how political savviness can help school district administrators counter-frame problematic populist policies
Éliane Dulude and Peter Milley
7. Social foundations as preparation for school and community leadership: the urgency for deep learning in anti-intellectual times
Carol E. Harris
PART III: Contemporary cases and issues
8. Populist governance, caudillismo, and the crisis of education in Nicaragua: from the ideal of national purpose to political expediency
Richard Maclure with Melvin Sotello Avilés
9. Policymaking in higher education under neo-populism: a Brazilian experience
Elizabeth Balbachevsky and José Augusto Guilhon-Albuquerque
10. Populism in Australian education: implications for educational leadership
Christina Gowlett and Richard Niesche
11. To surveil or not to surveil: educational surveillance in populist and nationalist times
Eugenie A. Samier
12. Conclusion: populism and educational leadership, policy, and administration: influences, responses, and directions for scholarship and research
Peter Milley and Eugenie A. Samier
Index
Biography
Peter Milley is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Eugenie A. Samier is a reader in the School of Education, University of Strathclyde, UK. She has frequently been a guest researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin; was a visiting professor in administrative studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia; and a visiting fellow at Oxford Brookes University.
