Leadership, Ethics and Schooling for Social Justice

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ID19902775
AuthorsRichard Niesche (0000-0001-9621-0712), Amanda Keddie (0000-0001-6111-0615, The University of Queensland)
Year2015
Pages164
Publication date2015-07-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueLeadership, Ethics and Schooling for Social Justice (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315818399
OpenAlexW1096836701
Open LibraryOL53979318M
ISBN9781315818399
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Issues of social justice and equity in the field of educational leadership have become more salient in recent years. The unprecedented diversity, uncertainty and rapid social change of the contemporary global era are generating new and unfamiliar equity questions and challenges for schools and their leaders. In order to understand the moral and ethical complexity of work undertaken in the name of social justice and equity in diverse contexts, this book uses a range of different theoretical tools from the work of Michel Foucault. Rather than a prescriptive, best practice approach to leadership and social justice, this book draws on Foucault’s four-fold ethical framework, and specifically, the notions of advocacy, truth-telling and counter-conduct to critically examine the leadership work undertaken in case studies in schools in Australia and England. Our approach makes transparent the ethical work that leaders in these contexts conduct on themselves towards creating schools that can address the equity challenges of the present climate. It illuminates and enables critical analysis of the moral imperatives shaping the equity work of school leaders and, in particular, the possibilities for transformative leadership that can work to create schools and school systems that are more socially just. Overall, the book’s key aims are to: Provide an innovative and comprehensive theorising of leadership for social justice in contemporary times; Explicate the utility of key elements of Foucault’s theorising of the ethical self to the domain of educational leadership; and Provide significant practical insight into the social justice possibilities of school leadership in contemporary times through two in depth case studies

Criminology · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Political science · Social justice · Social science · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Australia · Education · Educational leadership · Great britain

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