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Bridging the gap between academic parlance and arts-based inquiry, this unique text presents a socio-affective exploration of educational leadership. The text challenges inherited ideological and normative assumptions and invites its reader to reimagine leadership as a dynamic, emotional, and relational process. Exploring the Affective Dimensions of Educational Leadership combines the ambiguity of arts-based work with the interpretative power of psychoanalysis to illustrate the role of mutuality, personal interpretations, and formative relations on leadership practices. By emphasizing leadership as the constant striving for recognition, the chapters expose the affective dimensions that infuse educational leadership practice and in doing so, propose a new way for educational leaders to respond to complex and emotionally charged incidents in school contexts, thereby promoting democratic practice and positive collegial relations. An engaging and insightful text, this book will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics, and professionals in the fields of educational leadership, educational research, and psychoanalysis.

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Author:   Alysha Farrell
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138359543

ISBN 10:   1138359548
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   29 August 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Photos List of Poems List of Plays List of Episodes Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Affect as a Shadow in the Field of Leadership Fantasies of Objectivity Affect Shadows Psychoanalytic Shadows Beauty Shadows Part Two: Dancing with the Unconscious – Relational Affective Forces You Bring Something Out in Me This Feels Familiar Memoirists Ghosts In Your Dreams Part Three: Communicative Bodies in Sensuous Encounters Word Play Narcissistic Signalling Denial of Loss Confession Living with the Paradox The Unbidden Recognition Part Four: Relational Leadership as Socio-aesthetic Inquiry Staging Educational Leadership as Psychoanalytic Theatre Images of Practice Arts-Based Research The Field of Educational Leadership Conclusion as Distillation References

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Alysha Farrell is Assistant Professor in Department of Educational Leadership and Administration and the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Brandon University, Canada.

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