Critical Perspectives on Educational Leadership

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John Smyth
Psychology Press, 1989 - 247 sider
This book is an edited collection of original papers which challenge in a very direct manner the dominant behaviourist and functionalist views that have come to entrap those who live, work and conduct research in the area of educational leadership. By shifting the focus away from sterile discussions about traits, personalities and styles of educational leadership, and focusing instead on the structures and processes within schools as organisations that frustrate, distort and ultimately stifle educative relationships the writers provide a much needed way of reconceptualising both thought and action in so-called acts of educational leadership.

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Toward a Critical Practice of Leadership
39
New Leadership and the Possibility of Educational
63
A Feminist Critique
93
Leadership and the Rationalization of Society
131
Educational Leadership as Reflective Action
157
A Pedagogical and Educative View of Leadership
179
In Defence of Organizational Democracy
205
Notes on Contributors
235
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John Smyth is Associate Professor in Social and Administrative Studies and Chair of the Education Studies Centre at Deakin University.

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