Chapter 16: Educational Governance, Teachers’ and Leaders’ Work: Some Feminist Observations

This chapter maps from a feminist perspective some of the broad challenges confronting schools, governments, teachers, and leaders in the early 21st century, where bureaucratic, market, and network cultures converge to shape the possibilities of schools to prepare learner-earners. It reviews major transformations in the structural and cultural arrangements of schooling resulting from global flows, a dimension often ignored in the focus on effective schools and student outcomes. It is argued that educational work, school governance, and leadership need to be redesigned for different network sociality, and suggests what that means in terms of leadership practices and school redesign for social justice.