Leadership as lunacy and other metaphors of educational leadership
Lumby, Jacky and English, Fenwick G (2010) Leadership as lunacy and other metaphors of educational leadership, Thousand Oaks, USA, Corwin, 184pp. (In Press).
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For millennia people have been profoundly interested in leadership, but the way they have tried to understand it is cognitively more sophisticated than through right brain only rational language. Metaphors function through unstable comparison of two things which are both like and unlike. Consequently metaphors have been used as a kind of thinking to provoke uncertainty and tension and so stimulate creative and innovative understanding of leadership. This book sets out to provide stimuli in a standard free zone and to use metaphor as a heuristic, a tool of human development. The book adopts an interdisciplinary focus and draws on a range of disciplines such as philosophy, sociobiology, anthropology, humanities and literature, intending to inspire reflection on leadership in education and what acting as a leader might entail.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| ISBNs: | 9781412974271 (hardback) |
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| Keywords: | Educational administration, management, policy language, school principals, headteachers |
| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Education > Leadership, School Improvement and Effectiveness |
| Item ID: | 73075 |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2010 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:34 |
| Contributors: | Lumby, Jacky (Author) English, Fenwick G (Author) |
| Date: | January 2010 |
| Status: | In Press |
| Publisher: | Corwin |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/73075 |
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