Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse

Fenwick W. English is Professor and Chairperson of Educational Leadership in Teachers College. Formerly he was the R. Wendell Eaves Senior Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

• The Archaeology of Educational Leadership as an Enunciative Field.- Leadership as Folk Mythology and Heroic Practice.- The Search for a Science and Scientific Standing.- From MBO to TQM: A Delineation of Fads in the Field.-Women administrators: The Tide Has Turned.- Politics and Policies of the Field).-Historic and longstanding issues in the political arena of educational leadership.- Legal, Ethical, Value Based Dilemmas in Leadership Practice.-The Business of Education.- The World Wide Specter of Neoliberalism.- Testing and the Discourse of Meritocracy.- A Taxonomy of Leadership Thinking.- Leadership as Scientific Thinking and Practice.- Leadership as Artistic Practice and Connoisseurship.-Teacher Leadership.- Democratic vs. Distributive Leadership.-International perspectives on the preparation of educational leaders.- International perspectives on effective schools.- Leadership as a Cultural Co-Construction.- Innovation and The Change Resisters.- The Social Construction of Leadership Power.-Postmodernism and Leadership Practice.-Marxism and Leadership Dilemmas.-The Philosophical Basis of Social Justice.- The Irrationality of Rational Choice Theory.-countability: The Resurrection of Scientific Management.