Advocacy leadership: Toward a post-reform agenda in education

Gary L. Anderson

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
PublisherRoutledge Taylor & Francis Group
Number of pages213
ISBN (Print)0203880617, 9780203880616
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 6 2009

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences

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