The Aesthetic Dimensions of Educational Administration & Leadership (Hardcover)

"The Aesthetic Dimensions of Educational Administration and Leadership "provides an aesthetic critique of educational administration and leadership. It demonstrates the importance of aesthetics on all aspects of the administrative and leadership world: the ways ideas and ideals are created, how their expression is conveyed, the impact they have on interpersonal relationships and the organizational environment that carries and reinforces them, and the moral boundaries or limits that can be established or exceeded.
The book is divided into three sections.
- Section I examines various philosophical traditions in aesthetics as they inform administrative life, focussing on major modern traditions arising from Kant, romanticism and Nietzsche, Collingwood, the pragmatic school, and critical theory.
- Section II explores four aesthetic sources for administrative critique - architecture, literature, film, and movement - as they serve both to understand the social construction of administration and leadership and provide a critique of values, roles, power and authority.
- Section III examines more topical and applied problems of charisma, heroism, and authority in practice, concluding with a discussion of the aesthetic analysis of politics and power within the context of contemporary educational administration and leadership theory.
While presenting a significant departure from conventional studies in the field, the international contributors reflect a continuity of thought on the creation, use and abuse of administrative and leadership authority from the writings of Plato through to contemporary theory. This book should appeal to school administrators and leaders and thoseaspiring to these roles.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2006
First published:	2006
Editors:	Eugenie A. Samier • Richard Bates
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	244
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-36996-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General
LSN:	0-415-36996-7
Barcode:	9780415369961

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