Educational Leadership and Michel Foucault

by Donald Gillies

Book Overview

Drawing from the ideas of Michel Foucault, this book offers a critical examination of today's dominant discourse of educational leadership. Foucault's understanding of critique is as a 'permanent' ethos in which humans explore the nature of their existence but at the same time query the limits imposed upon them, and probe opportunities for increasing freedom. This book outlines the key concepts in the work of Foucault, and demonstrates how his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415633125
• ISBN13: 9780415633123
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"