Full Description
This book brings together key scholars using Foucault in educational leadership to provide an overview of his methodologies, concepts, and examples of applications. Written for both those new to and experienced with Foucault's work, this book explores new avenues to understand, critique and explore relevant issues in educational leadership. The book features chapters from academics and practitioners based in Australia, Denmark, Italy, the UK and the USA, and includes chapters on global education leadership, decolonial leadership, gender, and digital education governance.
Contents
Series Editor's Preface, Mark Murphy (University of Glasgow, UK)
Introduction Richard Niesche (UNSW Sydney, Australia) and Denise Mifsud (University of Bath, UK)
1. Michel Foucault and Educational Leadership: The State of the Field and Where to From Here? Richard Niesche (UNSW Sydney, Australia), Denise Mifsud (University of Bath, UK) and Adam Bongers (UNSW Sydney, Australia)
2. Putting Concepts in Motion: Approaching Educational Leadership Discourse Through Archaeology, Adam Bongers (UNSW Sydney, Australia)
3. Performatively Subectivising The School Principal: The Principal as Discursive Affective Force in Global Educational Leadership Discourses, Stephen Kelly and Saadia Adnaan (University of Adelaide, Australia)
4. Using Foucault to Interrogate Teacher Discourses and Dissent in Online Reddit Forums, Brad Gobby and Saul Karnovsky (Curtin University, Australia)
5. Foucault and Decolonial Thinking: Expanding the Epistemic and Ontological Toolbox, Francesca Peruzzo (University of Birmingham, UK) and Emanuela Spanò (University of Cagliari, Italy)
6. Affective Governmentality: Governing the Educational Futures of Girls and Young Women with Glitter and Excitement, Jette Sandager (Aarhus University, Denmark) and Justine Grønbæk Pors (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
7. Thinking with the Dispositive in an Analysis of Inclusion: Applying Foucault in Doing Research in Educational Leadership and Practice, Bjørn Hamre (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
8. Subjectivation: A Controversial Tool for Critical Social Research, Roberto Serpieri (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
9. Inanimate Leadership: The Ability of Inanimate 'Things' to Govern in Education, Christina Gowlett (The University of Queensland, Australia)
10. 'What's Happening to Me?': School Leaders Resisting the Impossible Bargain, Chris Dolan and Robert Hattam (University of South Australia, Australia)
11. The Epistemic Space of Digital Education Governance: An Archaeological Perspective on Data, Automation and the Promise of Perfection, Emiliano Grimaldi (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
12. Overview, Discussion and Reflections, Fenwick W. English (Florida Gulf Coast University, USA)
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