LEADER 03958nam 22005291 450 001 9910511697103321 005 20211005132544.0 010 $a1-350-01048-0 010 $a1-350-01046-4 010 $a1-350-01047-2 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350010482 035 $a(CKB)4340000000212488 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4923802 035 $a(OCoLC)994882918 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09261102 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6158300 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000212488 100 $a20171025d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFoucault and school leadership research $ebridging theory and method /$fDenise Mifsud 210 1$aLondon, UK ;$aNew York, NY :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (268 pages) 225 0 $aSocial theory and methodology in education research 311 $a1-350-10554-6 311 $a1-350-01045-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : setting the stage for the research narrative -- Foucauldian props for data interpretation and representation i -- Foucauldian props for data interpretation and representation ii -- Data analysis choices and the crisis of representation -- Data analysis choices and the fictional representation of narrative -- Raising the curtain on sunnyside college -- The performance of collegiality -- The fluidity in the emerging relations of power -- The unfolding of leadership distribution -- Bringing down the curtain? -- Presenting conclusions and theorisations : the quasi-final stage. 330 8 $aFoucault and School Leadership Research illustrates the application of Foucauldian theory to an educational leadership research context, thus staging the ways a researcher negotiates the methodological tensions and contradictions in the conduct of qualitative inquiry within education research. The book draws on an empirical study of a multi-site school collaborative that investigates relations of power within the unfolding network among the various leadership hierarchies in school governance. The book is anchored around a narrative dramatization that the author, Denise Mifsud, crafts from her data, using the dramatic play as a medium to present her research findings so as to show rather than just tell readers about network leadership dynamics. Mifsud's innovative use of dramatization to communicate her findings and analysis serves to problematize the representation of qualitative research, as well as to incorporate researcher interpretation and explicate the intertwining nature of theory and methodology. Through the use of Foucauldian theory, mainly his notions of webs of power, discipline, governmentality, discourse, and subjectification, the research narrative critiques and problematizes traditional understandings of educational leadership. The book focuses on and demonstrates the challenging enterprise of the art of theory application in method by outlining the epistemological, operational and analytical challenges encountered: the application of Foucauldian concepts in education research contexts; the adaptation of methodological and theoretical concerns; in addition to showing how the quality of research outcomes is shaped by social theory 410 0$aSocial theory and methodology in education research series. 606 $aEducational leadership$xPhilosophy 606 $aEducational leadership$xResearch$xMethodology 606 $2Philosophy & theory of education 615 0$aEducational leadership$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEducational leadership$xResearch$xMethodology. 676 $a371.2001 700 $aMifsud$b Denise$0759249 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910511697103321 996 $aFoucault and school leadership research$91534722 997 $aUNINA