Leaders and leadership in education

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 10
1 Challenging leadership......Page 12
The leadership terrain......Page 13
An intellectual journey......Page 14
Knowledge and knowing......Page 16
Leadership as a paradigm shift......Page 17
Leadership as academic tribes and territories......Page 18
Leadership as a power structure......Page 19
Leadership as praxis......Page 20
Leadership as intellectual work......Page 22
Bourdieu’s theory of practice......Page 23
Staking a claim for a position......Page 25
2 Leadership and the performing school......Page 28
The performing school......Page 29
The performing school: contesting and struggling......Page 32
Educational administration......Page 33
Organisational management, 1974–88......Page 34
Performance management......Page 35
Markets and leadership in education......Page 39
Summary......Page 42
School effectiveness and school improvement......Page 43
Education management......Page 47
Critical studies......Page 51
Boundaries......Page 53
Language and labelling......Page 56
Summary......Page 59
Struggling for research......Page 60
Instrumental leadership......Page 65
Biographical leadership......Page 67
Critical educational leadership......Page 71
Summary......Page 73
Struggling for theory......Page 74
Struggling with theory......Page 76
Theorising power......Page 77
Transformational leadership......Page 79
Educational transformational leadership......Page 83
Summary......Page 86
Pathways and careers......Page 88
Working lives: choices and selection......Page 90
Leading and leadership over time......Page 94
Learning, experience and support......Page 96
Professional development and training......Page 98
Summary......Page 102
Headteachers and their work......Page 104
Talking headteachers......Page 107
Critical headship......Page 112
Summary......Page 115
Middle managers......Page 117
Working in the middle......Page 119
Deputies and senior managers......Page 125
Senior management teams......Page 129
Summary......Page 130
9 Teachers and students......Page 132
Empowerment......Page 133
Radicalising collegiality......Page 137
Distributing leadership......Page 142
Summary......Page 148
10 Teachers as professionals......Page 150
Professionals and accountability......Page 151
Professions and professionalism......Page 153
Radicalising professionality......Page 156
Conceptually informed practice......Page 160
Continuing the intellectual journey......Page 161
Bibliography......Page 165
Author index......Page 203
Subject Index......Page 208