Advocacy leadership : toward a post-reform agenda in education / Gary L. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Gary L., 1948-

Series:

Critical social thought.

The critical social thought series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School management and organization--Social aspects--United States.

School management and organization.

Educational leadership--United States.

Educational leadership.

Critical pedagogy--United States.

Critical pedagogy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this timely and important new book, Gary Anderson provides a devastating critique of why a managerial role for educational leaders is counterproductive, especially for improving opportunities for low-income students and students of color, and instead proposes ways of re-theorizing educational leadership to emphasize its advocacy role. Advocacy Leadership lays out a post-reform agenda that moves beyond the neo-liberal, competition framework to define a new accountability, a new pedagogy, and a new leadership role definition. Drawing on personal narrative, discourse analy

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor Introduction; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 School Reform, Authenticity, and Advocacy; 2 Authentic Leadership; 3 The New Economy of Schooling; 4 Disciplining Leaders; 5 Toward an Authentic Distribution of Leadership; 6 Toward a Post-Reform Agenda; Appendix A; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-205) and index.

ISBN:

1-135-84779-7

1-282-01653-9

9786612016530

0-203-88061-7

9780203880616

OCLC:

476235798