Strategic Leadership and Public School Principals: A Study in New South Wales Australia [Paperback]

Scott Eacott (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 15, 2009 | ISBN-10: 3639198794 | ISBN-13: 978-3639198799

This text is meant to serve two purposes. The first is to take stock, assess, and integrate the body of literature on strategic leadership and management in education. As we shall see, the fluctuating interest in the topic has not yielded a particularly orderly, cumulative, or concise set of findings. In fact, the literature on the strategic role of school leaders is immensely diverse in methods and perspectives. The aim of this book is to help the reader navigate and make sense of this profuse domain. The second objective is to go well beyond what is already known and set forth new frameworks, perspectives, testable propositions, and methodological recommendations for the study of strategic leadership and management in education. In places, the ideas are clearly speculative, meant to stimulate debate and systematic testing. This monograph is intended to provide a new platform for theory and research on the strategic role of school leaders, consolidating what is already known, identifying the high priorities for what next needs to be known, and proposing how scholars might fruitfully conduct their inquiries.

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About the Author

Scott Eacott is a Lecturer in Educational Leadership, at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is currently engaged in work exploring the notion of leadership as a social practice, informed by the work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu. He has published on strategy in education in a number of international journals.

Product Details

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: VDM Verlag (September 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3639198794
• ISBN-13: 978-3639198799
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

More About the Author

Scott Eacott (PhD) is currently Senior Lecturer, Chair of Educational Leadership programs, and leader of the Educational Leadership Management and Administration (ELMA) research group at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is widely published in the field of educational leadership. His research interests and contribution to educational leadership fall into three main areas: theorising leadership practice; school leadership preparation and development, particularly university-based programs; and reconceptualising strategy in the educational administrative context. His contribution to theorising leadership practice includes both empirical and theoretical explorations informed by the work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, and more recently, post-Bourdieusian social theory. In the area of teaching educational administration his work includes a wide-ranging critical examination of policy and practice, especially in the context of the advancing managerialist project of the state. His contribution to reconceptualising strategy includes innovative applications of Bourdieusian / post-Bourdieusian perspectives to challenge rationalist models of decision making and planning.