Critical Approaches to Researching Educational Leadership - A Companion

List of contents

Part A
What does it mean to be a critical ELMA researcher?

What is ‘critical"?the taken for grated nature of the field and its terminology k tanks and policy makers. daries. eofhistory.

What is the role of theory in framing research?

How do you conduct critical research?

Part B
What critical leadership researchers are interested in researching

Purposes

How do leaders work for social justice? How do leaders deal with questions of intersectionality? diverse communities? What are the experiences of minority groups of leaders - what do they do?

How is leaders work and practice shaped by policy? What does policy say about/for leaders?

How do leaders form an identity as leader?

Practices

How do leaders change their organisations? What do leaders do in hard times?

How do leaders work with others – staff, students, parents? How do leaders work

with others – church, industry, partnerships? What is the dark side of leadership?

Who is selected and appointed as leaders? How are leaders retained in the system? Why do they leave and who leaves what kinds of institutions?

Performances

How does one learn to be a leader? How is knowledge about ELMA created and taught to others?

How did leadership get to be this way?

How are leaders represented in media – what is the job represented to be?

Part C
The toolkit from which you would construct your repertoire

Methodology and methods eg case study, ethnography mixed methods are methodologies. Decolonising research. Standpoints. Beyond the commatised list, the intersectionality move.

The basic tools - talking to leaders and those who work with them - survey, interview, focus group, narrative, life history, conversation, diary/journal.

Watch them at work - observation, shadowing, video and audio recording, walking and live methods, the materialist tangle, online ethnography

How do other people experience and perceive leadership –students and parents voice research including arts methods, facebook, critical incidents.

Working with leaders to research their practice/researching own practice – researching own practice – action research, reflective journals, arts based, photo elicitation, blogging, policy trajectory/enactment.

Leadership as relational, how leadership works in this place or places – photo-survey, social media analysis, documentary analysis. Also interactions and networks – network analysis, document analysis, mapping, time and space analysis, co-constructed research, actor network, artefactual analysis.

What shapes ELMA – archive and document analysis, policy analysis, web – based analysis, discourse analysis, media, genealogy

　
Part D Analysis and creating text

Conclusion

About the author

Jill Blackmore is Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Education, and Director of the Centre for Research in Educational Futures and Innovation at Deakin University, Australia.
Helen Gunter is Professor of Education Policy, Leadership and Management in the School of Education, University of Manchester, UK.
Pat Thomson PSM, PhD, FAcSS is Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is a Visiting Professor at the University of the Free State, South Africa, Deakin University, Australia and The University of Iceland.

Summary

This crucial guide answers the questions that arise from designing, conducting and communicating research in the field of educational leadership and management. The authors bring different theoretical and research perspectives to the discipline and provide commentary and resources to help postgraduate students, practitioner researchers, supervisors and early career researchers to understand what it means to do research from a critical perspective. This must-have companion is the only book in the field that coherently shows what critical approaches actually mean and how they may be carried through from conceptualisation, to design, to carrying out and writing up the research, and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Blackmore, Jill Blackmore, Jill (Deakin University Blackmore, Helen Gunter, Pat Thomson, Pat (University of Nottingham Thomson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.04.2019, delayed
• EAN: 9781138068131
• ISBN: 978-1-138-06813-1
• No. of pages: 290
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education