Challenges for Public Education: Reconceptualising Educational Leadership, Policy and Social Justice as Resources for Hope
About this ebook
Challenges for Public Education examines the educational leadership, policy and social justice implications of these trends in Australia and internationally. It maps this movement through early shifts to school-based management in Australia, New Zealand and Sweden and recent moves such as the academies programme in England and charter schools in the United States. It draws on recent studies of a distinct new phase in Australian school reform – the creation of ‘independent public schools’ (IPS) in Western Australia and Queensland – and global policy moves in public education in order to provide a truly international dialogue and debate on these matters.
This book moves beyond critique. It innovatively brings together Australian and international perspectives and a rich range of diverse theoretical lenses: practice philosophy, feminism, gender, relational, and postmodernism. As such, it provides a crucial forum for illuminating alternate ways to conceptualise educational leadership, policy and social justice as resources for hope.
About the author
Jane Wilkinson is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Monash University, Australia. She researches educational leadership as practice/praxis. Jane’s new book is Educational Leadership as a Culturally-constructed Practice: New Directions and Possibilities (with Laurette Bristol, Routledge, 2018). She is lead editor (with Jeffrey S. Brooks) of the Journal of Educational Administration and History.
Richard Niesche is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research interests include educational leadership, social justice and poststructuralism. He is a founding co-editor of the Educational Leadership Theory book series with Springer.
Scott Eacott is a relational theorist in the School of Education, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is widely published with research interests and contributions in three main areas: 1) a relational approach to organizational theory; 2) social epistemology; and 3) school reform.
