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Narratives of Educational Leadership

Representing Research via Creative Analytic Practices

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Editors:
  1. Denise Mifsud

    1. University of Bath, Bath, UK

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  • Engages with the methodological preliminaries of scholarship that emerges in the representation of data and its analysis
  • Adopts distinct paradigmatic lenses and presents leadership studies analyzed through different theoretical frameworks
  • Includes international perspectives with leadership studies dealing with a variety of education settings

Part of the book series: Educational Leadership Theory (ELT)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Educational Leadership Research and Creative Analytic Practices: A Critical Mapping of Theoretical and Methodological Terrains?

    • Denise Mifsud
    Pages 1-20

  3. Educational Leadership, Critique and the Critical Researcher

    • Richard Niesche
    Pages 21-34

  4. Turning Water into Wine: Scripting Multi-academisation Through Messianic Educational Leadership

    • Steven J. Courtney, Ruth McGinity
    Pages 35-71

  5. (Mis)Leading for Social (in)justice and (in)equity…(Un)Following a Script?

    • Denise Mifsud
    Pages 73-113

  6. Is Inclusive Educational Leadership for Social Justice and the Common Good Possible?

    • Enrique Javier Díez Gutiérrez, Katherine Gajardo Espinoza
    Pages 115-130

  7. Potential Theoretical Approaches to Support the Critical Exploration of ‘The Problem(s)’ of Preparing, Recruiting and Retaining Headteachers in Scotland

    • Deirdre Torrance, Christine Forde, Margery A. McMahon, Alison Mitchell, Julie Harvie
    Pages 131-158

  8. The Lockdown Files: University Performance and Development Reviews (PRDs) as a Form of Governmentality

    • Stephen Day, Anne Pirrie
    Pages 159-178

  9. The Views of the Few or the Voices of Many: Methods of Exploring Leadership Roles Through Alternative Approaches Within Higher Education

    • Moira E. Lafferty
    Pages 179-198

  10. Ghostly Mirroring: How Taxidermy Could Teach us Something Important About Current Attempts to Inspire STEM Aspirations in Young Women

    • Jette Sandager, Justine Grønbæk Pors
    Pages 199-221

  11. Conclusions: A Critical Commentary on the Theory and Methodology of Educational Leadership Narratives

    • Denise Mifsud
    Pages 223-238

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 239-241
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About this book

This book documents and deconstructs the concept of educational leadership within various education settings originating from diverse global environments. It focuses on presenting different readings of educational leadership via distinct theoretical and methodological applications. It takes forward the idea of critical leadership studies and uses creative analytic practices to present layered readings of educational leadership.

The book offers leadership studies dealing with various education settings across a wide spectrum with international perspectives. It provides examples of educational narratives through somewhat unconventional modes of representation. This book is beneficial to readers interested in the study of educational leadership and using qualitative methodologies in educational research.



Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bath, Bath, UK

    Denise Mifsud

About the editor

Denise Mifsud is an Associate Professor in Educational Leadership, Management and Governance in the Department of Education at the University of Bath. Her research interests include, educational policy analysis, generation, reception and enactment; critical leadership theories, with a particular interest in educational leadership, especially distributed forms; school networks and educational reform; initial teacher education; power relations; Foucauldian theory; Actor-Network theory, as well as qualitative research methods, with a particular focus on narrative, as well as creative and unconventional modes of data representation.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Narratives of Educational Leadership

  • Book Subtitle: Representing Research via Creative Analytic Practices

  • Editors: Denise Mifsud

  • Series Title: Educational Leadership Theory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5831-0

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5830-3Published: 16 December 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5833-4Published: 17 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-5831-0Published: 15 December 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2510-1781

  • Series E-ISSN: 2510-179X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 241

  • Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Philosophy, Research Methods in Education, Education, general

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