Advocacy Leadership Toward a Post-Reform Agenda in Education [Paperback]

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 Leadershiplays 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.

Series Editor Introduction, MICHAEL W. APPLE

Foreword: Advocates, Managers, Leaders, and Social Entrepreneurs? The Future of Educational Leadership, JANELLE SCOTT

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. School Reform, Authenticity, and Advocacy

2. Authentic Leadership

3. The New Economy of Schooling

4. Disciplining Leaders: Mediating the New Economy

5. Toward an Authentic Distribution of Leadership

6. Toward a Post-Reform Agenda

Appendix A

Notes

References

Index

2009 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)

Gary Anderson restores balance to the preparation of leaders for U.S. schools. He moves the focus from support of testing and free market ideology to leadership for social justice and a Deweyan authenticity in all matters educational. --Jean Anyon, author of Theory and Educational Research: Toward l3…