Understanding Educational Leadership

Steven J. Courtney is Senior Lecturer in Management and Leadership at the University of Manchester, UK. Helen M. Gunter is Professor Emerita at the University of Manchester, UK, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.Richard Niesche is Associate Professor in Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Australia.Tina Trujillo is an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education, USA, and the Faculty Director of the Principal Leadership Institute.

• Notes on contributors Foreword, John Smyth Introduction: Taking critical perspectives and using critical approaches in educational leadership, Steven J. Courtney, Helen M. Gunter, Richard Niesche and Tina Trujillo Part One: Critical perspectives and approaches across the world1. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in the USA, Tina Trujillo and Sonya Douglass Horsford2. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in England, Ruth McGinity and Kay Fuller 3. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in Australia, Martin Mills and Glenda McGregor 4. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in South Africa, Pontso Moorosi and Jan Heystek 5. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in China, Ting Wang and Kai Yu6. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in Indonesia, Zulfa Sakhiyya and Tanya Fitzgerald 7. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in two Nordic countries, Jorunn Møller and Linda Rönnberg 8. Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in Chile, Alejandro Carrasco and Germán Fromm, with Helen M. Gunter Part Two: Critical perspectives on models and methods in educational leadership 9. Leading and managing in educational organizations, Helen M. Gunter and Emiliano Grimaldi 10. Using theory in educational leadership, management and administration research, Pat Thomson and Amanda Heffernan 11. Research methods in educational leadership, Scott Eacott and Gus Riveros 12. An historical de-construction of leadership style, Fenwick W. English and Lisa Catherine Ehrich13. Distributed leadership, Howard Youngs and Linda Evans 14. Educational and instructional leadership, Scott Eacott and Richard Niesche15. Educational reform and leading school change, Jill Blackmore and Rachel McNae Part Three: Critical perspectives and approaches to contemporary issues in educational leadership 16. Gender and educational leadership, Jane Wilkinson, Anar Purvee and Katrina MacDonald 17. Sexual identity and educational leadership, Catherine A. Lugg and Robin Roscigno 18. Race and educational leadership, Mark A. Gooden and Victoria Showunmi 19. Socio-economic class and educational leadership, Helen M. Gunter and Steven J. Courtney 20. Governance and educational leadership, Andrew Wilkins and Brad Gobby 21. Performativity, Managerialism and educational leadership, Tanya Fitzgerald and Dave Hall22. Corporatization and educational leadership, Kenneth Saltman and Alexander J. Means23. Leading in a genetics-informed education market, Steven Jones, Steven J. Courtney and Helen M. Gunter Conclusion: Putting critical approaches to work in educational leadership, Helen M. Gunter, Steven J. Courtney, Richard Niesche and Tina Trujillo

Understanding Educational Leadership is exactly the kind of critically oriented book that is so necessary today. It is insightful, clear, and provides the reader with crucial ways of both understanding and interrupting the models of educational leadership that are dominant in too many places today.