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- Offers the most comprehensive survey of contemporary dialogue and debate on relational approaches to educational administration and leadership
- Articulates and justifies a distinctive relational approach for organizational theory in education
- Includes critical commentaries on the core arguments of the book to highlight the relational approach and its value for the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Educational Leadership Theory (ELT)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Relational Turn in Contemporary Thought and Analysis
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Front Matter
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Relational Extensions
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Front Matter
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Dialogue and Debate
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Front Matter
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Moving Forward
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About this book
This book systematically elaborates Scott Eacott’s “relational” approach to organizational theory in education. Contributing to the relational trend in the social sciences, it first surveys relational scholarship across disciplines before providing a nuanced articulation of the relational research program and key concepts such as organizing activity, auctors, and spatio-temporal conditions. It also includes critical commentaries on the program from key figures such as Tony Bush, Megan Crawford, Fenwick English, Helen Gunter, Izhar Oplatka, Augusto Riveros, and Dawn Wallin. As such, the text models an approach to, or social epistemology for building knowledge claims in relation rather than through parallel monologues.
Eacott’s relational approach provides a distinctive, post-Bourdieusian variant of the relational sociological project. Shifting the focus of inquiry from entities (e.g., leaders, organizations) to organizing activity and recognizing how auctors generate – simultaneously emerging from and constitutive of – spatio-temporal conditions unsettles the orthodoxy of organizational theory in educational administration and leadership. By presenting its claims in the context of other approaches, the book stimulates intellectual debate among both relational sociologists and opponents of relational approaches.
Beyond Leadership provides significant insights into the organizing of education. As it does not fit neatly into any one field, but instead blends educational administration and leadership, organizational studies, and relational sociology, among others, it charts new territory and promotes important dialogue and debate.
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Authors and Affiliations
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University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Scott Eacott
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beyond Leadership
Book Subtitle: A Relational Approach to Organizational Theory in Education
Authors: Scott Eacott
Series Title: Educational Leadership Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6568-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6567-5Published: 11 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4904-1Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6568-2Published: 06 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2510-1781
Series E-ISSN: 2510-179X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 278
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Educational Philosophy