Course overview
Students are invited to bring dispositions of curiosity, critique and problematisation to an analysis of the power relations, policy discourses and identity constructions that shape and constitute school leaders and their work. Contextually, the course is based around a critical analysis of neoliberalism as a currently dominant rationality and influence on schooling policy. While the work of analysis aims to support you in mounting a defensible critique of current arrangements, it is also directed to the knowledge possibilities yielded by this critique. These including developing alternative models and ways of leading, building a broader and more responsive pedagogical repertoire, and considering new and more democratic processes of teacher/leader participation and decision making.