Exploring the Affective Dimensions of Educational Leadership: Psychoanalytic and Arts-Based Methods

ISBN-13: 9780367784195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str.

Alysha Farrell

Opis

Bridging the gap between academic parlance and arts-based inquiry, this unique text presents a socio-affective exploration of educational leadership. The text challenges inherited ideological and normative assumptions and invites its reader to reimagine leadership as a dynamic, emotional, and relational process.

Spis treści

List of Photos

List of Poems

List of Plays

List of Episodes

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: Affect as a Shadow in the Field of Leadership

Fantasies of Objectivity

Affect Shadows

Psychoanalytic Shadows

Beauty Shadows

Part Two: Dancing with the Unconscious – Relational Affective Forces

You Bring Something Out in Me

This Feels Familiar

Memoirists

Ghosts

In Your Dreams

Part Three: Communicative Bodies in Sensuous Encounters

Word Play

Narcissistic Signalling

Denial of Loss

Confession

Living with the Paradox

The Unbidden

Recognition

Part Four: Relational Leadership as Socio-aesthetic Inquiry

Staging Educational Leadership as Psychoanalytic Theatre

Images of Practice

Arts-Based Research

The Field of Educational Leadership

Conclusion as Distillation

References

O autorze

Alysha Farrell is Assistant Professor in Department of Educational Leadership and Administration and the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Brandon University, Canada.