Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration

This edited volume brings together a range of perspectives on Educational Leadership, Management and Administration (ELMA) and various theories of resistance or compliance along with how policy and politics play out in school communities.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. Leaders Resisting? The Very Idea
3. Theorising principals' resistance and compliance as part of school autonomy reforms in Australian public education
4. An analysis of resistance in parvenu educational leaders' biographies: Thinking with Arendt about identities, academies and public schooling.
5. Educational leadership in trying times: Primary principals' resistance in New Zealand
6. Resisting English education policy: Making sense or 'absolute nonsense'
7. Resisting evidence-based policy hegemonies in a post-truth climate
8. Resistance and the permanent instability of educational neo-liberalism: 'Up, down, turn around, please don't let me hit the ground'
9. Turning Power / Resistance Upside-Down to Critically Affirming Digital Educational Leadership
10. The paradox of tactics in the teaching of literacy: Resistance and leadership by Aboriginal teachers
11. We Are Visible: Student Voices Amplifying Counternarratives to Impact Policy
12. Multiple 'counter-publics' in public education: educational and community leadership resisting neoliberal reform
13. Managing Tension: agonism and alliance in an ethos of democratic principal engagement
14. Education trade unions and union renewal: re-imagining resistance
15. Conclusion

About the author

Amanda McKay (previously Heffernan) is a Senior Lecturer in Education, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK.
Pat Thomson is a Professor of Education, School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK.
Jill Blackmore is an Alfred Deakin Professor in Education, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Australia, as well as president of the Australian Association of University Professors.

Summary

This edited volume brings together a range of perspectives on Educational Leadership, Management and Administration (ELMA) and various theories of resistance or compliance along with how policy and politics play out in school communities.

Product details

• Authors: Amanda (Manchester Institute of Educati Heffernan, Amanda (Manchester Institute of Education Mckay
• Assisted by: Jill Blackmore (Editor), Blackmore Jill (Editor), Amanda Heffernan (Editor), Amanda McKay (Editor), Pat Thomson (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9781032245768
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3224576-8
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Critical Studies in Educational Leadership, Management and Administration
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Educational strategies and policy