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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460253403321

Autore

Neische Richard <1972-, >

Titolo

Foucault and educational leadership : disciplining the principal / / Richard Neische

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-73991-2

1-283-10344-3

9786613103444

0-203-81897-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Disciplina

372.2/012

Soggetti

School principals

Educational leadership

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- A Foucauldian toolbox for educational leadership -- Discourses of educational leadership -- Disciplinary regimes under self-governance -- Leading and managing as ethical work -- "Doing" leadership differently.

Sommario/riassunto

School principals are increasingly working in an environment of work intensification, high stakes testing, accountability pressures and increased managerialism. Rather than searching for the latest leadership fad or best practice model, this book suggests that in order to better understand these pressures, the work of educational leadership requires more sophisticated theorisation of these practices. In so doing, the book draws upon the work of Michel Foucault to provoke new thought into how the principalship is lived and 'disciplined' in ways that produce both contradictions and tensions f