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> <p>Series Editor Introduction, MICHAEL W. APPLE</p><p>Foreword: <em>Advocates, Managers, Leaders, and Social Entrepreneurs? The Future of Educational Leadership,</em> JANELLE SCOTT</p><p>Acknowledgments</p><p>Introduction</p><p>1. School Reform, Authenticity, and Advocacy</p><p>2. Authentic Leadership</p><p>3. The New Economy of Schooling</p><p>4. Disciplining Leaders: <em>Mediating the New Economy</em></p><p>5. Toward an Authentic Distribution of Leadership</p><p>6. Toward a Post-Reform Agenda</p><p>Appendix A</p><p>Notes</p><p>References</p><p>Index</p>