New Directions in Educational Leadership Theory

Taylor & Francis

New Directions in Educational Leadership TheoryAuthor(s): Scott Eacott, Colin Evers\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138309715, 978-1138309715\nSynopsis\nEducational leadership has a rich history of epistemological debate. From the Theory Movement of the [tel]s, through to Greenfields critique of logical empiricism in the 1970s, the emergence of Bates and Fosters Critical Theory of educational administration in the 1980s, and Evers and Lakomskis naturalistic coherentism from1990 to the present time, debates about ways of knowing, doing, and being in the social world have been central to advancing scholarship. However, since the publication of Evers and Lakomskis work, questions of the epistemological preliminaries of research have become somewhat marginalised. This is not to suggest that such discussions are not taking place, but rather that they have been sporadic and piecemeal. \n\nIn New Directions in Educati.