Leading under pressure educational leadership in neoliberal times

The best leaders lead by example, not by mandate. However, so much leadership has become conscripted by neoliberal values. Educators and politicians, who are increasingly making policy for educators, have come to believe that standardized test scores are the same as knowledge acquired, as if test sc...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Chitpin, Stephanie (Editor), White, Robert E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. Emerald Publishing Limited 2022
Series:Transforming education through critical leadership, policy and practice
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Collection: Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • The future is now: Educational leadership in crisis / S. Chitpin and R. E. White
  • Part I: Social contexts
  • Chapter 1. Workplace conditions that contribute to principals' emotional labour / C. Hauseman
  • Chapter 2. Equity, diversity, and inclusion considerations for leadership in medical education / A. Larocque, D. Lewis, P. Rezaiefar, M. J. Venables, and D. Archibald
  • Chapter 3. Race, ethnicity and leadership pressures in neoliberal times / C. Vieler-Porter
  • Part II: Leading under pressure
  • Chapter 4. Leading under speculation: Small schools, context and the principalship / S. Eacott, F. Munoz Rivera, and A. Raad
  • Chapter 5. Eqao standardized examinations: An inequitable measure of academic success for food insecure students / O. Karoui
  • Chapter 6. School improvement does not take place in a vacuum / E. Anderson
  • Chapter 7. School leadership to prevent collateral damage: A case study of a thai principal during the covid-19 pandemic / T. Luanrit, E. Saito, and V. Saejea
  • Part III: Futurescapes
  • Chapter 8. Between a rock and a hard place: Principals in the middle / D. Fink, J. Hannay, S. Lazenby, and W. Marks
  • Chapter 9. Applying an adult development lens to explore school leadership patterns in equity and social justice / N. Sirois
  • Chapter 10. What's research got to do with it? Middle leadership in the modern university / T. Heffernan, L. Macaulay, and L. Bosetti Epilogue The World Crisis and the Key to Its Resolution / N. Maxwell