Leadership, Ethics and Schooling for Social Justice

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