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Sage Handbook of Critical Educational Leadership

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Critical educational leadership
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  • ISBN 9781529682182
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Nov 2026
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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The Sage Handbook of Critical Educational Leadership brings together educational leaders and scholars from across English-speaking scholars to rethink what leadership means when it is criticalized. Rejecting narrow managerialist models and traditional hierarchies of schooling, this handbook embraces a broad, socially engaged conceptualisation of leadership rooted in critical theory, ethical praxis, and transformative pedagogies.

Rather than offering a "how-to" guide, the handbook foregrounds leadership as an embodied, relational, and deeply political practice. Contributors draw on diverse positionalities, cultural traditions, and theoretical frameworks to explore how critical educational leadership is enacted in classrooms, communities, institutions, and public life. They illuminate the tensions educators face amid rising authoritarianism, surveillance, and assaults on academic freedom, arguing for leadership that resists reductive accountability regimes and instead fosters justice, solidarity, and democratic renewal.

Structured into thematic sections, the Handbook begins by establishing robust philosophical foundations which challenge neoliberal governance and reimagine leadership as emancipatory and ethical. Following are advances of research-based strategies for equity, anti-racism, sustainability, and culturally responsive practices. Offering cultural and ideological critiques of teacher education, the following chapters shed light on how whiteness, patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalist norms shape leadership discourses. The volume concludes by envisioning alternative futures for critical educational leadership, calling for structural, pedagogical, and policy shifts that centre human dignity, radical hope, and collective flourishing.

The Sage Handbook of Critical Educational Leadership is a rigorous, imaginative, and urgently needed rethinking of educational leadership as a site of justice, inclusion, and possibility in difficult times.

Section 1: Philosophy
Section 2: Critically Sustaining Leadership: Doing EDI in a Time of White Oligarchy
Section 3: Putting Hope back into Messy Leadership in Challenging Times
Section 4: Critical Research and Cultural Studies of Leadership
About
Professor Shirley R. Steinberg is Research Professor of Critical Youth Studies at the University of Calgary. She is the author and editor of many books in critical pedagogy, urban and youth culture, and cultural studies and a regular contributor to local and international media. The co-founder of The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy, she is the founder of International Institute of Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Leadership. Steinberg is committed to a global community of transformative educators and community workers engaged in radical love, social justice, and the situating of power within social and cultural contexts, specifically involving youth.