Overview
Provides a reflective analysis of the intellectual contributions of Helen Gunter as a leading scholar
Demonstrates how Helen Gunter’s thinking is being used in education research internationally
Offers the first Festschrift for a female, socially critical scholar of educational leadership and policy
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This edited collection is a Festschrift to Helen M. Gunter, a leading scholar in the field of education policy and leadership. We draw on the concept of the Festschrift as a collection of papers, or chapters, that recognise, honour, and celebrate the work and contributions of an esteemed academic. Gunter’s work has opened up the field of critical education policy and leadership studies and provoked, if not revitalised, scholarly thinking about the origins, structures, patterns and impact of the field. Gunter’s personal commitment to intellectual leadership of the field and public education resonates across all her scholarly works.
The core intention of this unique collection is to recognise Gunter’s scholarly contributions as an academic, practitioner and public intellectual. Invited authors have been asked to reflect critically on ways in which Gunter’s work and intellectual support have influenced their own research, teaching and academic engagement. In their reflections, contributors not only speak to the intellectual work of Gunter but suggest how they have taken this work forward and how this has advanced the field of education as well as the production of knowledge.Keywords
- Intellectual biography
- critical educational leadership
- sociology of education policy
- Helen M Gunter educator
- Critical management studies
- Research methodologies
- education policy sociology
- the role of the public educator
- professional practices in higher education
- doctoral supervision
- knowledge production in educational leadership
- political discourse’
- Arendtian thinking
- segregation in England
- cultural continuity in education
- comprehensive public education
- critical educational leadership
- teacher leadership
- educational administration
- privatisation of education
Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Steven J. Courtney is Professor of Sociology of Education and Director of Research at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester. Steven’s research explores areas including education policy, system leadership, charisma, structural reform, depoliticisation and education privatisation, particularly in relation to the identities and practices of those constructed as educational leaders. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Critical Studies in Education and co-convenor of the MIE research group, Critical Education Leadership and Policy (CELP). His most recent book (2021) is ‘Understanding educational leadership: Critical perspectives and approaches’ with Bloomsbury, co-edited with Gunter, Niesche and Trujillo. He is currently investigating former school leaders’ experiences of leaving the headship.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Education Policy and Leadership Studies
Book Subtitle: The Intellectual Contributions of Helen M. Gunter
Editors: Tanya Fitzgerald, Steven J. Courtney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36801-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36800-4Published: 01 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36803-5Due: 15 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36801-1Published: 31 July 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 183
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Philosophy