ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the collapse of neoliberal hegemony, along with the populist moment it has unleashed, requires rethinking the terms of educational leadership. This requires analysis of progressive and reactionary forms of neoliberalism and educational leadership. It also requires new, radical democratic commitments in educational leadership adequate to the social and economic challenges of this moment, which are educational as well as political. A radical democratic alternative to neoliberalism requires a contestation over hegemony, which is an educational project linked to the production of consciousness and democratic identification.
