Good intentions are not enough

A critical examination of diversity and educational leadership scholarship

Bibliographic Data

ID10106148
AuthorsJane Wilkinson (0000-0002-0727-0025, Charles Sturt University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume40
Issue2
Pages101-112
Publication date2008-07-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Educational Administration & History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0620 • E-ISSN: 1478-7431
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00220620802210855
OpenAlexW1968413303
LanguageEN
Citations received9

An emergent strand within mainstream educational leadership scholarship is an engagement with notions of diversity. This is part of a belated recognition that in an increasingly globalising world the largely masculinist, white norms from which most accounts of leadership derive, lack sufficient explanatory power for educational systems. Utilising critical, black and Indigenous feminist work on the recognition of difference, as well as recent feminist scholarship deconstructing diversity discourses in educational leadership, this article outlines the origins of the key diversity discourses from which the educational leadership field draws. It then analyses recent articles on diversity and educational administration, noting how the various diversity discourses have been taken up and the subsequent implications for educational leadership theorising and practices. It concludes by arguing that critical feminist research about the politics of difference, amongst others, provides an important body of scholarship from which to develop self‐reflexive and nuanced engagements with notions of diversity and leadership

Critical race theory · Diversity (politics · Educational leadership · Mainstream · Pedagogy · Political science · Power (physics · Racism · Reflexivity · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

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