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Political Approaches to Educational Administration and Leadership Routledge Research in Education 1. Learning Communities in 10. Balancing Dilemmas in Education Assessment and Learning in Edited by John Retallick, Barry Cocklin Contemporary Education and Kennece Coombe Edited by Anton Havnes and Liz McDowell 2. Teachers and the State International Perspectives 11. Policy Discourses, Gender, and Mike Bottery and Nigel Wright Education Constructing Women’s Status 3. Education and Psychology in Elizabeth J. Allan Interaction Working with Uncertainty in 12. Improving Teacher Education Inter-Connected Fields through Action Research Brahm Norwich Edited by Ming-Fai Hui and David L. Grossman 4. Education, Social Justice and Inter-Agency Working 13. The Politics of Structural Joined up or Fractured Policy? Education Reform Sheila Riddell and Lyn Tett Keith A. Nitta 5. Markets for Schooling 14. Political Approaches to An Economic Analysis Educational Administration and Nick Adnett and Peter Davies Leadership Edited by Eugénie A. Samier with 6. The Future of Physical Education Adam G. Stanley Building a New Pedagogy Edited by Anthony Laker 7. Migration, Education and Change Edited by Sigrid Luchtenberg 8. Manufacturing Citizenship Education and Nationalism in Europe, South Asia and China Edited by Véronique Bénéï 9. Spatial Theories of Education Policy and Geography Matters Edited by Kalervo N. Gulson and Colin Symes Political Approaches to Educational Administration and Leadership Eugénie A. Samier with Adam G. Stanley New York London First published 2008 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2008 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereaf- ter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trade- marks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Samier, Eugénie Angèle, 1954– Political approaches to educational administration and leadership / Eugénie A. Samier with Adam G. Stanley. p. cm. — (Routledge research in education ; 14) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-415-96207-0 (hbk) ISBN-10: 0-415-96207-2 (hbk) ISBN-13: 978-0-203-92867-7 (ebk) ISBN-10: 0-203-92867-9 (ebk) 1. School management and organization—Political aspects. 2. Educational leadership—Political aspects. I. Stanley, Adam. II. Title. LB2806.S325 2008 371.2—dc22 2007041682 ISBN 0-203-92867-9 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0-415-96207-2 (hbk) ISBN10: 0-203-92867-9 (ebk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-96207-0 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-92867-7 (ebk) Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables ix 1 Introduction 1 EUGÉNIE A. SAMIER PART I Political Philosophy: The Foundations 21 2 Beyond Foxes and Lions: Machiavelli’s Discourse on Power and Leadership 23 ANDREA MIGONE 3 Administration as a Humanistic Pursuit: Kant and Hegel on the Political Critique of Educational Administration 37 EUGÉNIE A. SAMIER 4 On Jürgen Habermas’ Critical Theory and the Political Dimensions of Educational Administration 54 PETER MILLEY 5 Hayek, Leadership, and Learning 73 PETER GRONN 6 Bourdieu’s Distinctions of Taste, Talent, and Power: Bridging Political Fields and Administrative Practice 89 CAROL E. HARRIS 7 Hermeneutic Leadership: Hannah Arendt and the Importance of Thinking What We are Doing 109 STEPHANIE MACKLER vi Contents 8 Democratic Ideals, Ethics, Foucault, and the Hegemony of Modern Thought in American Education: A Critical Enquiry 123 CHARLES J. FAZZARO PART II Political Analysis: The Critique 137 9 Risky Policy Processes: Accountability and School Leadership 139 MICHÈLE SCHMIDT 10 Putting Alternative Perspectives to Work in the Politics of Education 155 MICHELLE D. YOUNG AND GERARDO R. LÓPEZ 11 The Politics of Civil Society and the Possibility of Change: A Speculation on Leadership in Education 173 RICHARD BATES 12 The Politics of Education in Museums 189 READ M. DIKET 13 The Politics of Community Renewal and Educational Reform: School Improvement in Areas of Social Disadvantage 204 LAWRENCE ANGUS PART III Current Political Controversies: The Practice 221 14 At the Service of the (Restructured) State: Principal’s Work and Neoliberal Ideology 223 JANICE WALLACE 15 Listening to Student Voice in the Democratisation of Schooling 240 JOHN SMYTH 16 The New McCarthyism: The Right Wing’s Assault on American Academic Thought 252 FENWICK W. ENGLISH 17 Supranational Organisations and their Impact upon Nation State Education: The Case of the International Monetary Fund 269 MICHAEL BOTTERY Contributors 285 Name Index 295 Subject Index 305 List of Figures 2.1 Drawing moral assumptions from human potentials 30 4.1 Modes of communicative and strategic action 62 4.2 The lifeworld and system 66 List of Tables 4.1 Human Interests and Corresponding Forms of Knowledge 58 14.1 Political Ideologies 226 16.1 A Profi le of David Horowitz’s 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America 256
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