Political approaches to educational administration and leadership
This collection explores the political philosophy and theoretical foundations of educational administration and leadership as they influence our understanding, analysis and practice in the field. Throughout, the book takes a broad, international perspective.
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2008.
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| Series: | Routledge research in education ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Eugénie A. Samier
- Beyond foxes and lions: Machiavelli's discourse on power and leadership / Andrea Migone
- Administration as a humanistic pursuit: Kant and Hegel on the political critique of educational administration / Eugénie A. Samier
- On Jürgen Habermas' critical theory and the political dimensions of educational administration / Peter Milley
- Hayek, leadership, and learning / Peter Gronn
- Bourdieu's distinction of taste, talent, and power: bridging political fields and administrative practice / Carol E. Harris
- Hermeneutic leadership: Hannah Arendt and the importance of thinking what we are doing / Stephanie Mackler
- Democratic ideals, ethics, Foucault, and the hegemony of modern thought in American education: a critical enquiry / Charles J. Fazzaro
- Risky policy processes: accountability and school leadership / Michèle Schmidt
- Putting alternative perspectives to work in the politics of education / Michelle D. Young and Gerardo R. López
- The politics of civil society and the possibility of change: a speculation on leadership in education / Richard Bates
- The politics of education in museums / Read M. Diket
- The politics of community renewal and educational reform: school improvement in areas of social disadvantage / Lawrence Angus
- At the service of the (restructured) state: principal's work and neoliberal ideology / Janice Wallace
- Listening to student voice in the democratisation of schooling / John Smyth
- The new McCarthyism: the right wing's assault on American academic thought / Fenwick W. English / Supranational organisations and their impact upon nation state education: the case of the International Monetary Fund / Michael Bottery.