Untethering Educational Leadership

Based on an analysis of selected Chinese cinematic works depicting settings of educational practice and policy, the book explores how "Western" understandings of leadership emerge from these texts to form discursive media for social change.

Chenwei Ma is an associate professor of the educational economy and management in Public Administration of Sichuan University. Chenwei is engaged in comparative and international research on education policy. Roger C. Shouse is a partially retired educator who began work as a high school teacher in 1976. After earning his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Chicago, he has served as professor of educational leadership and public administration in the United States and China over the years from 1994 through the present, most recently at Sichuan University.

1: Impossible Mission I: To Distinguish the Meaning of "Leadership" 2: Impossible Mission II: To Depict the Film as Discursive Leadership 3: Impossible Mission III: To Pitch films Displaying Discursive Leadership 4: Impossible Mission IV: To Recognize the Discursive Leadership through Movie Lens 5: Impossible Mission V: To Make the Familiar New, and the New Familiar 6: Ongoing Mission: Generation Z, Always Online!