Critical Perspectives on Educational Policy and Change

Karen Healey is a Lecturer in Education at Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK. She is currently a trustee at BELMAS and co-convenor for BERA’s special interest group Educational Leadership.Carol Azumah Dennis is a Professor of Education, Policy and Practice at the Open University. She is currently the Faculty Director of Praxis, the Centre for Scholarship and Innovation.Judy Chandler is a Senior Lecturer in Education, Leadership and Management at the Open University and the Programme Leader for the MA and Education and MA in Childhood and Youth.Deborah Outhwaite has held senior roles in secondary, post-16, and system leadership in England. She is Chair of BELMAS 2023-2026 and is currently at the Institute of Education at the University of Liverpool and is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE.

• Chapter 1. An Introduction: Creative and Critical Redefinitions of Leadership; Carol Azumah Dennis and Karen Healey Section 1. Hindsight Poetic Introduction: It is with Hindsight We Recalibrate; Judy Chandler Chapter 2: The Elites, the Oligarchs and the Inculcated Technicians of Educational Leadership; Janet E. Hetherington and Gillian Forrester Chapter 3. A Poetic Inquiry into the Normalisation of Early Years’ Leadership; Kathryn Morris and Christine ParkerChapter 4. Third Space Leadership and Influence in Higher Education: Moving Beyond a Conventional Dynamic; Judy Chandler Section 2. Insight Poetic Introduction: It is with Insight we Illuminate; Karen Healey Chapter 5. Revolutionary Leadership: Insights into the Entrepreneurialism of School Leadership in England; Belinda C. Hughes Chapter 6. International School Leadership Through Edward Said’s Eyes: Orientalism, Post-Orientalism and the ‘Pedagogy of the Other’; Nidal Al Haj Sleiman Chapter 7. The Entanglement of Place in the Corporatised Governance of Schools: Thinking Poetically with Barad; Karen Healey Section 3. Foresight Poetic Introduction: Repacking Our Knapsack With Unicorns; Karen Healey Chapter 8. Promoting Equity in HE: The Power and Privilege of White leadership; Carol Azumah Dennis and Rehana Awan Chapter 9. Bridging the Awarding Gap: Leaders Building Heutagogical Bridges for Neurodivergent Students in Higher Education Institutions; Renu Bhandari Chapter 10. Awakening the Golden Unicorns: How the Changemaking Power of Potentia is Transforming Leadership in UK Further Education; Lou Mycroft Chapter 11. Concluding: On the Poetics of Time, Insight, and Leadership; Carol Azumah Dennis

Educational leadership research is too often confined to narrow theoretical and methodological bunkers. This collection breaks new ground offering different and creative processes, understandings and texts.