Advocacy Leadership: Toward a Post-Reform Agenda in Education Contributor(s): Anderson, Gary L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415994284 ISBN-13: 9780415994286 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: 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 in education. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Educational Policy & Reform - Education | Leadership - Education | Administration - General |
Dewey: 371.200 |
LCCN: 2008040082 |
Series: Critical Social Thought |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 216 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |