Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration

Amanda McKay (previously Heffernan) is a Senior Lecturer in Education, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK.Pat Thomson is a Professor of Education, School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK.Jill Blackmore is an Alfred Deakin Professor in Education, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Australia, as well as president of the Australian Association of University Professors.

• 1. Introduction2. Leaders Resisting? The Very Idea3. Theorising principals’ resistance and compliance as part of school autonomy reforms in Australian public education4. An analysis of resistance in parvenu educational leaders’ biographies: Thinking with Arendt about identities, academies and public schooling.5. Educational leadership in trying times: Primary principals’ resistance in New Zealand6. Resisting English education policy: Making sense or ‘absolute nonsense’7. Resisting evidence-based policy hegemonies in a post-truth climate8. Resistance and the permanent instability of educational neo-liberalism: ‘Up, down, turn around, please don’t let me hit the ground’9. Turning Power / Resistance Upside-Down to Critically Affirming Digital Educational Leadership10. The paradox of tactics in the teaching of literacy: Resistance and leadership by Aboriginal teachers11. We Are Visible: Student Voices Amplifying Counternarratives to Impact Policy12. Multiple ‘counter-publics’ in public education: educational and community leadership resisting neoliberal reform13. Managing Tension: agonism and alliance in an ethos of democratic principal engagement14. Education trade unions and union renewal: re-imagining resistance15. Conclusion