Sustainable Educational Leadership and the Climate Crisis

Knowledge, Power, and Positive Futures
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-40975-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: Educational Leadership for an Equitable, Resilient and Sustainable Future

Challenging conventional leadership models, this timely and pioneering volume offers a critical rethinking of educational leadership in the context of global crises, particularly climate change and social inequality.

Chapters introduce transformative approaches that prioritise sustainability, social justice, and collaboration by critically examining historical and philosophical foundations of current educational leadership through a blend of scholarly analysis and practical insights. Qualitative international data used in this book lend insight into educators’ lived perspectives. This book introduces thinkers such as Habermas, Serres, Foucault, Heidegger, and Anders on knowledge generation as applied to educational leadership. This book challenges neoliberal and patriarchal models of leadership that dominate the field. It offers innovative frameworks, such as degrowth and political ecology, to address the pressing issues of climate change and social inequality.

Ultimately, this book champions critical thinking as a tool for leadership and a resource for leading, and will be of use to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students interested in leadership strategy, sustainability education, training, and leadership, and the theory of education more broadly. Those involved with higher education management and philosophy of education will also find this book of value.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gardner-McTaggart, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword – Tristan McCowan

Introduction

Chapter 1. Leading Education from Exploitative Pasts, through Uncertain Times into Sustainable Futures

Chapter 2. From Control to Collaboration: Rethinking Leadership in Education

Chapter 3. Leadership, Knowledge, and Power: Challenging Business-Centric Models in Education

Chapter 4. Climate Change Means Leadership Change

Chapter 5. Combating Global Climate and Knowledge Crises through Sustainable Educational Leadership

Chapter 6. Leading in the Anthropocene: Rethinking Leadership for a Sustainable Future

Chapter 7: Rethinking Educational Leadership: Towards Human-Centred Approaches

Chapter 8. Artful Leadership: Integrating Creativity into Educational Practices

Chapter 9. Healing the Disconnect: Integrating Ecological Awareness in Educational Leadership

Afterword – Tony Bush

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Gardner-McTaggart was academic lead for Transnational Education and senior lecturer in Educational Leadership, University of Manchester, UK and is now dean of Arts and Social Sciences at the British University of Bahrain.

Anna Kliampa is guest author of chapter five. She is an Early Career Researcher and educational leader focussed upon education sustainability. She earned her PhD in 2024 from the University of Cambridge which focuses on educational transformation, climate change and degrowth.