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 in education.
Autorentext
Gary L Anderson is a former teacher and principal, and is currently a Professor of Educational Leadership in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University where he co-developed a new masters degree in Educational Leadership, Politics, and Advocacy.
Zusammenfassung
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 analysis, and interdisciplinary scholarship, Anderson delivers a compelling argument for the need to move away from current inauthentic and inequitable approaches to school reform in order to jump-start a conversation about an alternative vision of education today.
Inhalt
Series Editor Introduction, MICHAEL W. APPLE
Foreword: Advocates, Managers, Leaders, and Social Entrepreneurs? The Future of Educational Leadership, JANELLE SCOTT
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. School Reform, Authenticity, and Advocacy
2. Authentic Leadership
3. The New Economy of Schooling
4. Disciplining Leaders: Mediating the New Economy
5. Toward an Authentic Distribution of Leadership
6. Toward a Post-Reform Agenda
Appendix A
Notes
References
Index