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Educational Leadership and Michel Foucault.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (158 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781135052140
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 371.2011
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Contents:
Cover -- Educational Leadership and Michel Foucault -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introducing Michel Foucault -- 2 Why bring Foucault to the study of educational leadership? -- 3 Educational leadership as discourse -- 4 Power and educational leadership -- 5 Governmentality and educational leadership -- 6 Governmentality in practice: governing the self and others in a marketized education system -- 7 Thinking with and against Foucault -- Further resources -- References -- Index.
Summary: Outlines the key concepts in the work of Foucault, showing how his concepts of discourse, of power/knowledge, and of governmentality offer a way to understand how ideas of educational leadership and management have emerged, how they serve to establish a discipline, and how they construct individuals in particular ideological ways.
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Cover -- Educational Leadership and Michel Foucault -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introducing Michel Foucault -- 2 Why bring Foucault to the study of educational leadership? -- 3 Educational leadership as discourse -- 4 Power and educational leadership -- 5 Governmentality and educational leadership -- 6 Governmentality in practice: governing the self and others in a marketized education system -- 7 Thinking with and against Foucault -- Further resources -- References -- Index.

Outlines the key concepts in the work of Foucault, showing how his concepts of discourse, of power/knowledge, and of governmentality offer a way to understand how ideas of educational leadership and management have emerged, how they serve to establish a discipline, and how they construct individuals in particular ideological ways.

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