Educational Leadership and Policy in a Time of Precarity

This book brings perspectives towards questions of how precarity and precariousness affect work of leaders and educators in schools and universities globally. It is a resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students.

List of contents

Introduction—Educational Leadership and policy: precarity and precariousness 1.Theorising and preparing students for precarity: how can leaders and educators better prepare students to enter an increasingly insecure workforce? 2. Creative industries curriculum design for living and leading amid uncertainty 3. Ethical responsibilities of tenured academics supervising non-tenured researchers in times of neoliberalism and precarity 4. Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: toeing the line and jumping through hoops 5. Embracing vulnerability: how has the Covid-19 pandemic affected the pressures school leaders in Northern England face and how they deal with them? 6. Repositioned professionals and heterodox: a response to the precarity of reform in further education 7. Necessary risk: addressing precarity by re-envisioning teaching and learning

About the author

Amanda Heffernan is Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership at the Manchester Institute of Education, the University of Manchester, UK.
Jane Wilkinson is Professor of Educational Leadership in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.

Summary

This book brings perspectives towards questions of how precarity and precariousness affect work of leaders and educators in schools and universities globally. It is a resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students.

Product details

• Authors: Amanda (Manchester Institute of Educati Heffernan
• Assisted by: Amanda Heffernan (Editor), Jane Wilkinson (Editor), Wilkinson Jane (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2023
• EAN: 9781032588186
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3258818-6
• No. of pages: 125
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Research, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Leadership, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Educational strategies & policy, Moral and social purpose of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy