Keeping the Promise : Essays on Leadership, Democracy, and Education

by C.p. Gause

2020-07-24 18:17:18

This volume raises critical questions about the qualities of democratic educational leadership during a time when the promise of democratic education and public life risks being abandoned, forgotten, and emptied of meaning. A diverse chorus of schola... Read more
This volume raises critical questions about the qualities of democratic educational leadership during a time when the promise of democratic education and public life risks being abandoned, forgotten, and emptied of meaning. A diverse chorus of scholars in education take on this issue by analyzing the cultural context of educational leadership in the age of No Child Left Behind, by offering democratic counter-narratives of educational leadership, and by deconstructing popular culture representations of educational leaders. In doing so, they re-situate leadership within a political context and link it to struggles over social justice and human freedom. The contributing scholars also radically re-think educational leadership in ways that include teachers, university-based educators, and scholars as leaders. Less

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File size8.9x6x0.9inches
Print pages416
PublisherPeter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Publication date April 1, 2007
ISBN9780820481999

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