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Educational Leadership and Critical Theory What Can School Leaders Learn from the Critical Theorists.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Lowery, Charles L.
Other Authors: Gautam, Chetanath, White, Robert, Hess, Michael E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023.
Series:Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Series.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Half-title Page
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Series Editors' Foreword
  • References
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: Why Critical Theory and Educational Leadership? ( Charles L. Lowery)
  • Critical Educational Leadership
  • So, Why Critical Theory?
  • Why Is Critical Theory Important to School Leadership?
  • Conclusion and Volume Division
  • References
  • Part 1 Critical Educational Leadership for Understanding School and Society through the Theoretical and Reflective Lenses
  • 1 Educational Leadership through the Lens of Critical Theory
  • Critical Theory in Education
  • Critical Theory and School Leaders
  • Critical Theoretical Lens for Social Justice in Schools
  • Critical Leaders for Closing Achievement Gap in Schools
  • What Does an Equitable Classroom Look Like?
  • Critical Pedagogy as a Vehicle for Applying Critical Theory in Schools
  • Critical Theory-Inspired Practices on Promoting Equity in Schools
  • Conclusion and Way Forward
  • References
  • 2 Understanding the Role of Education in Emancipation, Liberation, and True Democracy
  • Introduction
  • A Brief Synthesis of Critical Philosophy and Critical Theory
  • Moral Philosophy and Education
  • Critical Theory and Education
  • Why Critical Theory-Informed Emancipatory Education?
  • Education as a Space of Resistance
  • Moving beyond Coconstruction to Liberation
  • An Emancipatory Paradigm for Transforming Educational Leadership
  • Enacting Emancipatory Education through Deliberative Collective Leadership
  • Deliberative Collective Leadership
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 3 Educational Leadership as a (Consumer) Culture Industry
  • Introduction
  • Adorno and the Culture Industry
  • Foucault and Biopower
  • Stiegler and Psychopower
  • Educational Leadership as a Form of Culture Industry/Consumerism
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
  • 4 Is Transformational Leadership One-Dimensional?
  • Introduction
  • The Promise of Transformational Leadership
  • Transformational Leadership in Education Research
  • Objections to Transformational Leadership Theory
  • Building a Critical Theory Framework
  • What Can Marcusean Critical Theory Teach Us?
  • Building a Multidimensional Transformational Leader in Education
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5 Cultivating Relations of Freedom through Education Leadership by Drawing from the Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse
  • Introduction
  • Liberating Education and the Need for Critical Theory
  • Critical Theorizing of Educational Leadership
  • Critical Theory of/in/for Education
  • Marcuse on Language and Dialectic: Contemplative Praxis
  • Responsibility to Ensure Education for a Free Society
  • Hope and the Focus on Freedom
  • Final Thoughts
  • Notes
  • References
  • 6 How Educational Leaders Make Better Decisions through a Frankfurt School Understanding of Rational Decision-Making

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