ABSTRACT

Theorising Identity and Subjectivity in Educational Leadership Research brings together a range of international scholars to examine identity and subjectivities in educational leadership in new and original ways. The chapters draw on a variety of approaches in theory and method to demonstrate the important new developments in understanding identity and subjectivity beyond the traditional ways of understanding and thinking about identity in the field of educational leadership.

The book highlights empirical, theoretical and conceptual research that offers new ways of thinking about the work of educational leaders. The authors take critical approaches to exploring the influences of gender, race, sexuality, class, power and discourse on the identity and subjectivity formation of educational leaders. It provides global perspectives on educational leadership research and researchers and offer exciting new approaches to theorising and researching these issues.

This book will appeal to researchers, students, and professionals working in the fields of educational leadership and sociology, and the chapters within offer readers new perspectives in understanding educational leaders, their work and their identities.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|14 pages

Identity, subjectivity and agency

Feminists re-conceptualising educational leadership within/against/beyond the neo-liberal self

chapter 4|14 pages

This bridge called my leadership

Theorising Black women as bridge leaders in education

chapter 5|14 pages

Towards an ethics of leadership

chapter 6|15 pages

Manufacturing the woman leader

How can wardrobes help us to understand leadership identities?

chapter 7|14 pages

Tropes and tall tales

Leadership in the neoliberalised world of English academies

chapter 8|15 pages

Being, becoming and questioning the school leader

An autoethnographic exploration of a woman in the middle

chapter 9|15 pages

The will not to know

Data leadership, necropolitics and ethnic-racialised student subjectivities

chapter 10|14 pages

Subjectivity and the school principal

Governing at the intersection of power and truth

chapter 13|15 pages

That’s enough about me

Exploring leaders’ identities in schools in challenging circumstances