Thinking with Michel Foucault in Educational Leadership: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges

Author:   Dr Richard Niesche (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) ,  Dr Denise Mifsud (University of Bath, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350471887


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   22 January 2026
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Thinking with Michel Foucault in Educational Leadership: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges


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Author:   Dr Richard Niesche (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) ,  Dr Denise Mifsud (University of Bath, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9781350471887


ISBN 10:   1350471887
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   22 January 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Series Editor’s Preface, Mark Murphy (University of Glasgow, UK) Introduction Richard Niesche (UNSW Sydney, Australia) and Denise Mifsud (University of Bath, UK) 1. Michel Foucault and Educational Leadership: The State of the Field and Where to From Here? Richard Niesche (UNSW Sydney, Australia), Denise Mifsud (University of Bath, UK) and Adam Bongers (UNSW Sydney, Australia) 2. Putting Concepts in Motion: Approaching Educational Leadership Discourse Through Archaeology, Adam Bongers (UNSW Sydney, Australia) 3. Performatively Subectivising The School Principal: The Principal as Discursive Affective Force in Global Educational Leadership Discourses, Stephen Kelly and Saadia Adnaan (University of Adelaide, Australia) 4. Using Foucault to Interrogate Teacher Discourses and Dissent in Online Reddit Forums, Brad Gobby and Saul Karnovsky (Curtin University, Australia) 5. Foucault and Decolonial Thinking: Expanding the Epistemic and Ontological Toolbox, Francesca Peruzzo (University of Birmingham, UK) and Emanuela Spanò (University of Cagliari, Italy) 6. Affective Governmentality: Governing the Educational Futures of Girls and Young Women with Glitter and Excitement, Jette Sandager (Aarhus University, Denmark) and Justine Grønbæk Pors (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) 7. Thinking with the Dispositive in an Analysis of Inclusion: Applying Foucault in Doing Research in Educational Leadership and Practice, Bjørn Hamre (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 8. Subjectivation: A Controversial Tool for Critical Social Research, Roberto Serpieri (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) 9. Inanimate Leadership: The Ability of Inanimate ‘Things’ to Govern in Education, Christina Gowlett (The University of Queensland, Australia) 10. ‘What's Happening to Me?’: School Leaders Resisting the Impossible Bargain, Chris Dolan and Robert Hattam (University of South Australia, Australia) 11. The Epistemic Space of Digital Education Governance: An Archaeological Perspective on Data, Automation and the Promise of Perfection, Emiliano Grimaldi (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) 12. Overview, Discussion and Reflections, Fenwick W. English (Florida Gulf Coast University, USA) References Index

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This book demonstrates that the field of educational leadership is not intellectually dead. So many public resources have been wasted on ‘what works’ agendas that do not work for educational leaders, leading and leadership. Instead, thinking with Foucault is methodologically necessary because the authors show that educational leadership is educative. * Emeritus Professor Helen Gunter *


This book demonstrates that the field of educational leadership is not intellectually dead. So many public resources have been wasted on ‘what works’ agendas that do not work for educational leaders, leading and leadership. Instead, thinking with Foucault is methodologically necessary because the authors show that educational leadership is educative. * Professor Helen Gunter, Professor Emerita, University of Manchester. *


Author Information

Richard Niesche is Professor in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Denise Mifsud is Associate Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, UK.

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