Description
Book SynopsisThis edited collection is a Festschrift to Helen M. Gunter, a leading scholar in the field of education policy and leadership. We draw on the concept of the Festschrift as a collection of papers, or chapters, that recognise, honour, and celebrate the work and contributions of an esteemed academic. Gunter’s work has opened up the field of critical education policy and leadership studies and provoked, if not revitalised, scholarly thinking about the origins, structures, patterns and impact of the field. Gunter’s personal commitment to intellectual leadership of the field and public education resonates across all her scholarly works.
The core intention of this unique collection is to recognise Gunter’s scholarly contributions as an academic, practitioner and public intellectual. Invited authors have been asked to reflect critically on ways in which Gunter’s work and intellectual support have influenced their own research, teaching and academic engagement. In their reflections, contributors not only speak to the intellectual work of Gunter but suggest how they have taken this work forward and how this has advanced the field of education as well as the production of knowledge.
Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Section 1:
Honour though collegiality.- Supervision as truth procedure.- Honour through collegiality: the intellectual legacy of Helen’s collaborations with students.- Wishful science and problems of perception: genetics in the service of entrenched privilege.- Section 2:
Honour through continuation of tradition.- Continuing a troubling tradition: On Gunter and critical educational leadership.- Developing critical approaches to educational leadership.- Critical engagement and commitment to the field of educational leadership.- Helen Gunter and public education: Leading, teaching, and learning in and for an ethos of public service.- Intellectual histories, power and activism. Understanding and modeling plurality within educational life in the works of Helen M. Gunter.- Section 3:
Honour through intellectual legacy.- From ‘Jurassic Management’ to a flourishing revival of critical studies of educational leadership: some reflections on the contribution of Helen Gunter and some encounters with her along the way.- Reimagining publics: Perspectives on the relational constitution of publics and the politics of reform.- Applying the framework of intellectual histories to explore leadership and leadership preparation in the Norwegian education context.- Atlantic Crossing: an intellectual biography of Caroline Benn.- Getting a word in edge-wise: Adventures in ELMA publishing.
