Socially Just Educational Leadership in Unjust Times
A Bourdieusian Study of Social Justice Educational Leadership Practices
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Beschreibung
This book offers a richly observed study of three principals working in some of the most disadvantaged primary schools in Victoria, Australia. It explores their social justice understandings and practices in working to improve the educational outcomes for children in their schools, through autobiography, biographical interviews, in-depth interviews and observations. The work looks into their life histories, the formation of their primary and secondary habitus, and uncovers and examines their encounters with the public education field. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice and his ‘thinking tools’, the book investigates how the principals’ understandings of social justice are shaped by the intersection of their life and work histories.
This book is of interest to educational leadership scholars interested in the application of critical theory to studies of leadership. The book provides an exemplar for the application of Bourdieu’s theory of practice, and it makes a strong contribution to Bourdieusian scholarship, social justice scholarship and educational leadership scholarship.
This book offers a richly observed study of three principals working in some of the most disadvantaged primary schools in Victoria, Australia. It explores their social justice understandings and practices in working to improve the educational outcomes for children in their schools, through autobiography, biographical interviews, in-depth interviews and observations. The work looks into their life histories, the formation of their primary and secondary habitus, and uncovers and examines their encounters with the public education field. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice and his ‘thinking tools’, the book investigates how the principals’ understandings of social justice are shaped by the intersection of their life and work histories.
This book is of interest to educational leadership scholars interested in the application of critical theory to studies of leadership. The book provides an exemplar for the application of Bourdieu’s theory of practice, and it makes a strong contribution to Bourdieusian scholarship, social justice scholarship and educational leadership scholarship.
Provides a rich theorising of school leadership practices for social justice Explores how the disjunctions in social justice leadership practices are reproducing unjust schooling Brings critical geographies of space and place into dialogue with Bourdieusian scholarship
Autor*in
Katrina MacDonald
Themen in »Socially Just Educational Leadership in Unjust Times«
social justice leadership educational leadership educational disadvantage practice theory spatial justice Pierre Bourdieu Narrative research life histories educational justice research in Australia leadership practice disadvantaged primary schools in Australia Edward Soja’s spatial justice reflexivity and positionality disadvantaged communities macrocosms