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- Title: Seductive Leadership: Enabling Or Disabling of Equitable Education?
- Author : Journal of Thought
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 209 KB
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Introduction William Foster's article on "Administrative Science, the Postmodern and Community" raises many important challenges to current theorizing of educational leadership (Foster, 1999). In it he aims to "move beyond those models of administration that have dominated the discipline in this century and begin to consider other ways of conceiving the field" (p. 97). He conceptualizes administration as a contested field and as such demands that it is the ethical responsibility of educational administrators to deny the "universalization of oneness" and support "the empowerment of difference." This paper is an attempt to extend Foster's project and hold him to his claim. While he explicitly sets out to make the field of educational administration relevant and accountable to "all children and their worlds," he fails to challenge his own assumptions about the seductive power of current conceptions of leadership. He ultimately reifies the cultural myth of managerial expertise by assuming the universality of its appeal and by assuming that all individuals with an interest in leadership are seduced by the current dominant system of power relations: