Questioning leadership : new directions for educational organisations / edited by Gabriele Lakomski, Scott Eacott, and Colin Evers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Challenging leadership : the Issues / Gabriele Lakomski and Colin W. Evers -- Beyond leadership : towards a "relational" way of thinking / Scott Eacott -- Everything we know about educational leadership is wrong : rethinking scholarship and practice for a fractured field / Jeffrey S. Brooks -- Disambiguating leadership : the continuing quest for the philosopher's stone / Fenwick W. English and Lisa Catherine Ehrich -- Commentary : The rise and rise of leadership / Tony Bush -- Zombie leadership, the diff-rend and deconstruction / Richard Niesche -- Problematisations, practices and subjectivation : educational leadership in neoliberal times / Brad Gobby -- Performatively resignifying leadership / Christina Gowlett -- Thinking beyond leadership as a service to policy : "seeing things big" in a dialogic 'public space' / Bev Rogers -- Commentary : Questioning postmodernism : does it have something to offer leadership fields? / Robert Donmoyer -- (Re)positioning the distributed turn in leadership / Howard Youngs -- Leadership standards and the discursive repositioning of leadership, leaders, and non-leaders : a critical examination / Augusto Riveros, Paul Newton and David Burgess -- Reflections on successful school leadership from the International Successful School Principalship Project / Lawrie Drysdale and David Gurr -- The future of leadership : new directions for leading and learning / Gabriele Lakomski, Colin W. Evers and Scott Eacott -- Commentary : Silos, bunkers, and their voices / Peter Gronn.