Social, Critical and Political Theories for Educational Leadership

• Main Authors: Niesche, Richard (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Gowlett, Christina (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Educational Leadership Theory,
• Subjects: School management and organization.; School administration.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Educational sociology .; Education and sociology.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Philosophy of Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.

This book makes the case for the continued and expanded use of social, critical and political theories in the field of educational leadership. It helps readers understand educational leadership by introducing them to a wide variety of theoretical and philosophical approaches and positions. The book...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Why use social, critical and political theories in educational leadership?
• 2 Critical perspectives in educational leadership: a new 'theory turn'?
• 3 Michel Foucault and discourses of educational leadership
• 4 Using Judith Butler to queer(y) educational leadership
• 5 Bernard Stiegler: Technics, and educational leadership as a form of psycho-power
• 6 Entangling Karen Barad with/in educational leadership
• 7 The inescapable connection between theory and practice.