Advocacy Leadership
Toward a Post-Reform Agenda in Education
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Educational Theory, Leadership, Educational Reform
| Author: | Gary L. Anderson | ISBN: | 9781135847784 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | May 1, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Gary L. Anderson |
| ISBN: | 9781135847784 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | May 1, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
In this timely and important new book, Gary Anderson provides a devastating critique of why a managerial role for educational leaders is counterproductive, especially for improving opportunities for low-income students and students of color, and instead proposes ways of re-theorizing educational leadership to emphasize its advocacy role. Advocacy Leadership lays out a post-reform agenda that moves beyond the neo-liberal, competition framework to define a new accountability, a new pedagogy, and a new leadership role definition. Drawing on personal narrative, discourse analysis, and interdisciplinary scholarship, Anderson delivers a compelling argument for the need to move away from current inauthentic and inequitable approaches to school reform in order to jump-start a conversation about an alternative vision of education today.
In this timely and important new book, Gary Anderson provides a devastating critique of why a managerial role for educational leaders is counterproductive, especially for improving opportunities for low-income students and students of color, and instead proposes ways of re-theorizing educational leadership to emphasize its advocacy role. Advocacy Leadership lays out a post-reform agenda that moves beyond the neo-liberal, competition framework to define a new accountability, a new pedagogy, and a new leadership role definition. Drawing on personal narrative, discourse analysis, and interdisciplinary scholarship, Anderson delivers a compelling argument for the need to move away from current inauthentic and inequitable approaches to school reform in order to jump-start a conversation about an alternative vision of education today.
