Caring leadership in turbulent times : tackling neoliberal education reform

• Main Author: Green, Mary G. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2014.
• Series: Educational leadership for social justice.
• Subjects: Educational leadership > Canada.; Educational change > Canada.; Education and globalization > Canada.; Neoliberalism > Canada.; Education > Leadership.; Moral and social purpose of education.; Educational strategies and policy.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806612307
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-62396-731-4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 273 pages)

This book analyzes education reform through the eyes of those entrenched in the process--policy makers, administrators, middle managers, principals, and teachers--in the context of care. A senior administrator, who participated in the implementation of an unprecedented series of reforms that flatten...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Series editor's preface
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1. Framing the issues: Theoretical dispositions and guiding principles
• Chapter 2. A researcher practitioner's personal and professional narrative
• Chapter 3. Global and local contexts
• Chapter 4. Neo-liberalism and caring in policy
• Chapter 5. Rationalism or humanism
• Chapter 6. Insiders' experience turbulence
• Chapter 7. From enlightenment to empowerment
• Chapter 8. Building caring bridges toward more socially just educational
• Chapter 9. Communities
• References
• About the author.