Critical Perspectives On Educational Leadership

Deakin Studies in Education #3

by John Smyth (Editor)

This book is an edited collection of original papers which challenge in a very direct manner the dominant behviourist and functionalist views that have come to entrap those who live, work and conduct research in the areas of educational leadership, and focusing instead on the structures and processes within schools as organisations that frustrate, distort and ultimately stifle educative relationships the writers provide a much needed way of reconceptualising both thought and action in so-called acts of educational leadership.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Research professor of education at the University of Ballarat. He is author/editor of fifteen books including, most recently, Teachers in the Middle: Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent
Years of Schooling (with Peter McInerney, Peter Lang Publishing, 2007) and “Dropping Out” Drifting Off, Being Excluded: Becoming Somebody Without School (with Robert Hattam and others, Peter Lang Publishing, 2004). His research interests include policy ethnographies of schooling, issues of social justice, community renewal, and
policy sociology of students’ lives and teachers’ work