Drawing from the ideas of Michel Foucault, this book offers a critical examination of today‘s dominant discourse of educational leadership. Foucault‘s under

School principals are increasingly working in an environment of work intensification, high stakes testing, accountability pressures and increased managerialism.

This book argues that the work of educational leadership needs more sophisticated theorisation in order to better understand the complexities that face many sch

Understanding Educational Leadership guides you through critical perspectives and approaches across the world, taking in the global north and south, and explore

Practitioners in the school system.