Educational Leadership and Michel Foucault

Drawing from the ideas of Michel Foucault, this book offers a critical examination of today's dominant discourse of educational leadership. Foucault's understanding of critique is as apermanent ethos in which humans explore the nature of their existence but at the same time query the limits imposed upon them, and probe opportunities for increasi

Donald Gillies is Professor of Education Policy at York St John University, UK.

1: Introducing Michel Foucault 2:Why Bring Foucault to the Study of Educational Leadership? 3: Educational Leadership as Discourse 4: Power and Educational Leadership 5: Governmentality and Educational Leadership 6: Governmentality in Practice: Governing the Self and Others 7: In a Marketized Education System Glenn Savage 8: Thinking With and Against Foucault 9: Further Resources