Advocacy Leadership

<p>In this timely and important new book Gary Anderson provides a devastating critique of why a managerial role for educational leaders is counterproductive especially for improving opportunities for low-income students and students of color and instead proposes ways of re-theorizing educational leadership to emphasize its <em>advocacy </em>role. <em>Advocacy Leadership</em> lays out a post-reform agenda that moves beyond the neo-liberal competition framework to define a new accountability a new pedagogy and a new leadership role definition. Drawing on personal narrative discourse analysis and interdisciplinary scholarship Anderson delivers a compelling argument for the need to move away from current inauthentic and inequitable approaches to school reform in order to jump-start a conversation about an alternative vision of education today.</p>