Existential Crises in Educational Administration and Leadership

Eugenie A. Samier is a Reader in the School of Education, University of Strathclyde, Scotland. She has been a Guest Researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin, was Visiting Professor in Administrative Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

• Notes on Contributors1. Existential Threats, Crises and Disciplinary Responses: Educational Administering and Leading in an Emerging Zeitgeist of AngstEugenie A. SamierPART I. Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations2. Standing at the Edge of Abysses: Existential Threats to Education and its Administration and Leadership, or, Communing with Kafka in the AbyssEugenie A. Samier3. The Sublime, Affect Phrasing, and Les Petits Narratives in Educational LeadershipRichard Niesche4. Creating and Sustaining a Politics of Outrage and Indignation, While ‘Screaming’ Back at Educational Leadership as a Bullshit IdeaJohn SmythPART II. Teaching and Researching Crises5. Out of the Shadows: The Power of Art to Transform Conversations in LeadershipCarol E. Harris6. The ‘Why’ Matters Most: A Framework for Activist Art Making to Transform School Communities to Promote Social JusticeChrista Boske, Mariel Sallee, L. Joshua Jackson, and Leshun Collins7. Educating Administrators and the Fear of Freedom in the Age of Surveillance CapitalismEveline Wittmann and Aldin StrikovićPart III. Contemporary Issues and Cases Internationally 8. The Meaning of Voice in our Search for AuthenticityChristopher Bezzina9. The Scream and the ‘Dependent Beauty’ of Betsy DeVosFenwick W. English10. Stoic Leadership of Dialogic Engagement: Expressionist Reflections on Surviving the Scream Against Toxic Leadership and Management in Higher EducationJill JamesonAfterword: Or, how to cling to the abyssal edgeEugenie A. SamierIndex