Leadership, Ethics and Schooling for Social Justice

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Richard Niesche (University of New South Wales, Australia) Amanda Keddie (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Leadership, Ethics and Schooling for Social Justice

Richard Niesche (University of New South Wales, Australia), Amanda Keddie (The University of Queensland, Australia)

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Routledge
27 July 2015

Moral & social purpose of education; Educational strategies & policy; Organisation & management of education

Issues of social justice and equity in the field of educational leadership have become more salient in recent years. The unprecedented diversity, uncertainty and rapid social change of the contemporary global era are generating new and unfamiliar equity questions and challenges for schools and their leaders. In order to understand the moral and ethical complexity of work undertaken in the name of social justice and equity in diverse contexts, this book uses a range of different theoretical tools from the work of Michel Foucault. Rather than a prescriptive, best practice approach to leadership and social justice, this book draws on Foucault’s four-fold ethical framework, and specifically, the notions of advocacy, truth-telling and counter-conduct to critically examine the leadership work undertaken in case studies in schools in Australia and England.

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

By: Richard Niesche (University of New South Wales Australia), Amanda Keddie (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 385g
ISBN: 9780415736626
ISBN 10: 0415736625
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 27 July 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Niesche is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Amanda Keddie is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia.