ABSTRACT

The author’s aim is to develop an intersubjective approach to the study of educational leadership, one that challenges the conventional humanist subject who operates as a self-contained protagonist. Blending a scholarly-research-voice with fictional texts, she defines leadership not as a stable body of knowledge but as something that is always in the making and doing with others. To that end, her primary task is to demonstrate that leadership, at its essence, is relations, and to account for what leading does to leaders in educational organizations. The episodes, poems and scripts included in the text pull attention to the intensities and the surfaces of emergence when bodies (human and non-human) affect bodies within and beyond educational organizations.