Leadership as lunacy : and other metaphors for educational leadership /: and other metaphors for educational leadership. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jacky Lumby and Fenwick W. English.
• Other Names: Lumby, Jacky; English, Fenwick W
• Contents: Preface; About the Authors; 1. The Presence and Power of Metaphors; Not Just Words; From Gilgamesh to Obama: Metaphors Communicate and Connect; How Metaphors Work; Why a Book About Metaphors for Educational Leaders?; Structure; Toward a New Kind of Wisdom; 2. Leadership as Machine; Running the Factory; Leaders Running the Machine; Evaluating the Machine; On Being a Machine; The Machine Metaphor; 3. Leadership as Accounting; The Relentless Pursuit of Rationality and Waste; Educational Hyperrationalization; The Cheating Culture: Corrosion of the Means/Ends Accountability Continuum; The Accounting Metaphor: A Chimera Wrapped Up as an Ideology; 4. Leadership as War; Preparing for a Board Meeting; The Ambivalence of War Metaphors; Military Admonitions, Educational Situations, and Contradictions; The Way of the Warrior Is Death: Education Is Life; 5. Leadership as Sport; Sports: Language and Action; The Little ?Closed-System? World of an Athletic Team; The Problem of the Charismatic Coach as a Model for the CEO; Understanding the Nature of Power; The Sports Metaphor: An Impossible Dream; 6. Leadership as Theater; The School as Stage: What Lies Beneath?; The School as Staged: Long Run or Repertory?; The School as Staged: Acting Leadership; The School as Ritual Performance; School as Theater; 7. Leadership as Religion; The Concept of the External Supreme Being; Towards Perfection: The Idea of Progress; Manifestations of Religion in Management and Educational Leadership; The Presence of ?Managementspeak? and Religious Rituals in School Practices; Warring Metaphors; The Power of Religious Metaphors: The Universal Versus The Dogmatic and Partisan Experience; Learning How to Lead Outside the Command and Control Model; 8. Leadership as Lunacy; Lunacy as a Form of Toxicity; Leaders as Lunatics; The Lunatic Psyche; Symptoms, Signs and Pathologies; The Lunacy Metaphor; 9. Metaphors of Leadership; The Uses of Metaphors; Grand Narratives; Positive Metaphors; So, Where to Now?; References; Index;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : Corwin
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (176 pages)
• Subjects: 371.2; Educational leadership
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452271736; 1452271739
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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