Advocacy leadership [[electronic resource] ] : toward a post-reform agenda in education / / Gary L. Anderson

• Autore: Anderson Gary L. <1948->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.200973; 371.2011
• Soggetto topico: School management and organization - Social aspects - United States; Educational leadership - United States; Critical pedagogy - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-205) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor Introduction; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 School Reform, Authenticity, and Advocacy; 2 Authentic Leadership; 3 The New Economy of Schooling; 4 Disciplining Leaders; 5 Toward an Authentic Distribution of Leadership; 6 Toward a Post-Reform Agenda; Appendix A; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this timely and important new book, Gary Anderson provides a devastating critique of why a managerial role for educational leaders is counterproductive, especially for improving opportunities for low-income students and students of color, and instead proposes ways of re-theorizing educational leadership to emphasize its advocacy role. Advocacy Leadership lays out a post-reform agenda that moves beyond the neo-liberal, competition framework to define a new accountability, a new pedagogy, and a new leadership role definition. Drawing on personal narrative, discourse analy
• Titolo autorizzato: Advocacy leadership
• ISBN: 1-135-84779-7; 1-282-01653-9; 9786612016530; 0-203-88061-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782704703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical social thought.