Overview
- Offers a straightforward introduction to a variety of theoretical perspectives
- Introduces a wide range of new theoretical concepts that helps readers understand educational leadership
- Provides examples of theories put into practice with regard to educational leadership issues
Part of the book series: Educational Leadership Theory (ELT)
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Table of contents(7 chapters)
Keywords
- education theory and philosophy
- post-structuralism
- queer theory
- social theories in educational leadership
- critical theories in educational leadership
- political theories in educational leadership
- equality in educational leadership
- Michel Foucault
- Judith Butler
- Jacques Ranciere
- Karen Barad
- Bernard Stiegler
About this book
This book makes the case for the continued and expanded use of social, critical and political theories in the field of educational leadership. It helps readers understand educational leadership by introducing them to a wide variety of theoretical and philosophical approaches and positions. The book incorporates a rich blend of ideas and concepts, and compares and contrasts the approaches discussed.
The content largely focuses on four educational thinkers: Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Bernard Stiegler and Karen Barad. The chapters do not cover each thinker’s oeuvre exhaustively, but instead provide a brief overview of his/her ideas, while also helping readers understand a particular aspect of the educational leadership discourse. Each chapter also provides supplementary reading recommendations for those interested in pursuing these ideas in more depth.
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Education, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Richard Niesche
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School of Education, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Christina Gowlett
About the authors
Dr Christina Gowlett is a lecturer at the School of Education, University of Queensland. Prior to joining the UQ, she was a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She is also an experienced secondary school teacher. Christina’s research interests include educational policy, school leadership, curriculum change and schooling inequalities. Her work is broadly informed by poststructural theory, especially the work of Judith Butler. Christina is the convenor of the Sociology of Education Special Interest Group at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE). She is also the Coordinator for the Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum Foundation course at UQ’s School of Education, and the School’s Chief Examiner. Her latest publication is a co-edited book with Associate Professor Mary Lou Rasmussen, The Cultural Politics of Queer Theory in Education Research (Routledge,2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social, Critical and Political Theories for Educational Leadership
Authors: Richard Niesche, Christina Gowlett
Series Title: Educational Leadership Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8241-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8240-6Published: 09 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8243-7Published: 09 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8241-3Published: 30 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2510-1781
Series E-ISSN: 2510-179X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 142
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Philosophy of Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education