Apocalyptic leadership in education : facing an unsustainable world from where we stand

Mainstream educational leadership has lost much of its footing as a progressive practice. More managers than wisdom-keepers, educational leaders no longer have authority to critique the toxicities of the present and imagine alternative futures. In public schools and higher education, the neoliberal...

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Other Authors Miller, Vachel W., 1969- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [ 2017]
SeriesTransforming education for the future.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806609123
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-836-4
Physical Description1 online resource (xx, 203 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Apocalyptic teaching : Facing our fears and teaching through tears / Robert Jensen
  • The eco-leadership paradigm in the classroom and beyond / Benjamin Redekop and Isaac Schleifer
  • Cultivating hope and resolve in perilous times : Transforming despair into adaptive leadership / Marie Eaton
  • Something else is more important than fear : Becoming-in/appropriate educational leaders on the verge in a time of mass extinction and climate catastrophe / Susan F. Reed
  • Solutionary leadership : Creating a culture in which ecologically minded teachers thrive / Scott Morrison
  • Small changes with deep roots : Social entrepreneurship and school gardens / Courtney Baines Smith
  • Transformative spiritual school leadership for inclusive education / Mousumi Mukherjee
  • Enduring unsustainable leadership : Enacting a pedagogy of hope through mindfulness, artful inspiration, and compassionate leadership / Jessica Gilway
  • Scheherazade and the axe : Narrative medicine, the apocalypse, and the way through / Chris Osmond
  • Expanding the radius of concern and cultivating habits of hope : A meditation on educational leadership for sustainable ethics in the anthropocene / Kelly Clark/Keefe and Vachel Miller
  • Conclusion : Apocalyptic leadership in formation / Vachel Miller.