{"product_id":"understanding-educational-leadership-9781350081819","title":"Understanding Educational Leadership","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Educational Leadership\u003c\/i\u003e guides you through critical perspectives and approaches across the world, taking in the global north and south, and explores the ways in which educational leadership is currently understood, theorised, researched, modelled and practised. The book also covers contemporary issues including gender, sexual identity and race, as well as topics such as governance, performativity and corporatisation. It brings together evidence and ideas that illuminate the power structures and relations in educational leaders, leading and leadership and helps you to consider the impact on policy and practice, and to think about changes needed to mitigate the issues identified. The book showcases a wide range of theorists, including Bourdieu, Foucault and Fraser. Its impressive scope includes analyses of collectivist, neoliberal and historical influences on educational leadership. It explores forensically leadership styles, with an explicit focus on distributed, ins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Educational Leadership\u003c\/i\u003e is exactly the kind of critically oriented book that is so necessary today.  It is insightful, clear, and provides the reader with crucial ways of both understanding and interrupting the models of educational leadership that are dominant in too many places today. * Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA *\u003cbr\u003eEssential reading! \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Educational Leadership: Critical Perspectives and Approaches\u003c\/i\u003e is a ‘must-read’ for anyone interested in school today, anyone and everyone.  This book represents a major leap forward in our understanding of how schools work and who they best work for and why.  This book brings together in one volume the best thinking of the best scholars in educational leadership today.  It’s comprehensive, deep and thorough.   It’ll likely be foundational in our thinking going forward, something solid upon which we can build. * Duncan Waite, Professor of Education and Community Leadership, Texas State University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eA highly educational book, which really does promote a deeper understanding of educational leadership through critical perspectives. Its scope and contributions are impressive, offering insights from around the world, covering diverse historical and contemporary issues, while encouraging the reader to reflect critically on their own experiences and practices. * Phil Taylor, Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership and Management, University of Nottingham, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis important book offers the first sustained attempt at a comprehensive account of educational leadership from a broadly critical perspectives stance. Among its many contributions is a deep challenge to leader-centric views of leadership with its associated focus on narrow views of leader agency. Instead, the book’s contributors highlight the importance of context as vital for framing the causal fabric in which leadership is enacted, a fabric that necessarily includes wider social forces. The book will be essential reading for researchers, students, policy-makers and practitioners in educational leadership. * Colin W. Evers, Professor of Educational Leadership, University of New South Wales, Australia *\u003cbr\u003e“Leadership” is a contested concept that emerged along with neoliberal capitalism and the logic and language of the private sector. These international scholars explore “leadership” as a site of struggle over what it would mean for public schools to become truly public, equitable, anti-racist, caring, and democratic spaces and how we might reappropriate “leadership” toward these ends. * Gary Anderson, Professor of Educational Leadership, New York University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on contributors     Foreword, \u003ci\u003eJohn Smyth   \u003c\/i\u003e            Introduction: Taking critical perspectives and using critical approaches in educational leadership, \u003ci\u003eSteven J. Courtney, Helen M. Gunter, Richard Niesche and Tina Trujillo              \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart One: Critical perspectives and approaches across the world\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in the USA, \u003ci\u003eTina Trujillo and Sonya Douglass Horsford\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in England, \u003ci\u003eRuth McGinity and Kay Fuller     \u003c\/i\u003e 3. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in Australia, \u003ci\u003eMartin Mills and Glenda McGregor       \u003c\/i\u003e 4. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in South Africa, \u003ci\u003ePontso Moorosi and Jan Heystek  \u003c\/i\u003e 5. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in China, \u003ci\u003eTing Wang and Kai Yu\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in Indonesia, \u003ci\u003eZulfa Sakhiyya and Tanya Fitzgerald    \u003c\/i\u003e 7. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in two Nordic countries, \u003ci\u003eJorunn Møller and Linda Rönnberg         \u003c\/i\u003e 8. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in Chile, \u003ci\u003eAlejandro Carrasco and Germán Fromm, with Helen M. Gunter     \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Two: Critical perspectives on models and methods in educational leadership        \u003c\/b\u003e 9. Leading and managing in educational organizations, \u003ci\u003eHelen M. Gunter and Emiliano Grimaldi            \u003c\/i\u003e 10. Using theory in educational leadership, management and administration research, \u003ci\u003ePat Thomson and Amanda Heffernan    \u003c\/i\u003e 11. Research methods in educational leadership, \u003ci\u003eScott Eacott and Gus Riveros  \u003c\/i\u003e 12. An historical de-construction of leadership style, \u003ci\u003eFenwick W. English and Lisa Catherine Ehrich\u003c\/i\u003e 13. Distributed leadership, \u003ci\u003eHoward Youngs and Linda Evans          \u003c\/i\u003e 14. Educational and instructional leadership, \u003ci\u003eScott Eacott and Richard Niesche\u003c\/i\u003e 15. Educational reform and leading school change, \u003ci\u003eJill Blackmore and Rachel McNae\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart Three: Critical perspectives and approaches to contemporary issues in educational leadership \u003c\/b\u003e 16. Gender and educational leadership, \u003ci\u003eJane Wilkinson, Anar Purvee and Katrina MacDonald\u003c\/i\u003e          17. Sexual identity and educational leadership, \u003ci\u003eCatherine A. Lugg and Robin Roscigno             \u003c\/i\u003e 18. Race and educational leadership, \u003ci\u003eMark A. Gooden and Victoria Showunmi           \u003c\/i\u003e 19. Socio-economic class and educational leadership, \u003ci\u003eHelen M. Gunter and Steven J. Courtney           \u003c\/i\u003e 20. Governance and educational leadership, \u003ci\u003eAndrew Wilkins and Brad Gobby\u003c\/i\u003e               21. Performativity, Managerialism and educational leadership, \u003ci\u003eTanya Fitzgerald and Dave Hall\u003c\/i\u003e 22. Corporatization and educational leadership, \u003ci\u003eKenneth Saltman and Alexander J. Means\u003c\/i\u003e 23. Leading in a genetics-informed education market, \u003ci\u003eSteven Jones, Steven J. Courtney and Helen M. Gunter    \u003c\/i\u003e Conclusion: Putting critical approaches to work in educational leadership, \u003ci\u003eHelen M. Gunter, Steven J.  Courtney, Richard Niesche and Tina Trujillo\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407504843095,"sku":"9781350081819","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350081819.jpg?v=1730499604","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/understanding-educational-leadership-9781350081819","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}