1st Edition
Theorising Identity and Subjectivity in Educational Leadership Research
Introduction (Richard Niesche and Amanda Heffernan)
Chapter 1: Conceptualising constructions of educational-leader identity (Steven J. Courtney and Ruth McGinity)
Chapter 2: Identity, subjectivity and agency: feminists re-conceptualising educational leadership within / against / beyond the neo-liberal self (Jill Blackmore)
Chapter 3: The principalship as a social relation (Scott Eacott)
Chapter 4: This Bridge Called My Leadership: Leading America’s Schools While Black and Female (Sonya Douglass Horsford)
Chapter 5: Towards an ethics of leadership (Donald Gillies)
Chapter 6: Manufacturing the Woman Leader: How Can Wardrobes Help Us to Understand Leadership Identities? (Amanda Heffernan and Pat Thomson)
Chapter 7: Tropes and tall tales: Leadership in the neoliberalised world of English academies (Matthew Clarke and Linda Hammersley-Fletcher)
Chapter 8: Being, becoming, and questioning the school leader: An autoethnographic exploration of a woman in the middle (Deborah M. Netolicky)
Chapter 9: The Will Not to Know: Data Leadership, Necropolitics and Ethnic-Racialized Student Subjectivities (Dorthe Staunæs and Jon Sparre Bach Conrad)
Chapter 10: Subjectivity and the school principal: Governing at the intersection of power and truth (Richard Niesche)
Chapter 11: A Day in the Life Performance of a Re/Dis/Un/Covering Administrator (Dawn C. Wallin)
Chapter 12: Exploring and Que(e)rying the Subjectivity of Educational Leadership Researchers Who Pursue Queer Issues (Bryan J. Duarte and Gavin Murphy)
Chapter 13: That’s enough about me: Exploring leaders’ identities in schools in challenging circumstances (Gerry Mac Ruairc)
Conclusion
Biography
Richard Niesche is Associate Professor in Educational Leadership at The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
Amanda Heffernan is Lecturer in Leadership at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
