Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration

ISBN-13: 9781032245768 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 240 str.

Opis

This edited volume brings together a range of perspectives on Educational Leadership, Management and Administration (ELMA) and various theories of resistance or compliance along with how policy and politics play out in school communities.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Leaders Resisting? The Very Idea

3. Theorising principals’ resistance and compliance as part of school autonomy reforms in Australian public education

4. An analysis of resistance in parvenu educational leaders’ biographies: Thinking with Arendt about identities, academies and public schooling.

5. Educational leadership in trying times: Primary principals’ resistance in New Zealand

6. Resisting English education policy: Making sense or ‘absolute nonsense’

7. Resisting evidence-based policy hegemonies in a post-truth climate

8. Resistance and the permanent instability of educational neo-liberalism: ‘Up, down, turn around, please don’t let me hit the ground’

9. Turning Power / Resistance Upside-Down to Critically Affirming Digital Educational Leadership

10. The paradox of tactics in the teaching of literacy: Resistance and leadership by Aboriginal teachers

11. We Are Visible: Student Voices Amplifying Counternarratives to Impact Policy

12. Multiple ‘counter-publics’ in public education: educational and community leadership resisting neoliberal reform

13. Managing Tension: agonism and alliance in an ethos of democratic principal engagement

14. Education trade unions and union renewal: re-imagining resistance

15. Conclusion

O autorze

Amanda Heffernan is Senior Lecturer in Education, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK.

Pat Thomson is Professor of Education, School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK.

Jill Blackmore is Alfred Deakin Professor in Education, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Australia, as well as President of the Australian Association of University Professors.