Problematising the intellectual gaze of the educational administration scholar
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Eacott, Scott. (2015). Problematising the intellectual gaze of the educational administration scholar. Educational Philosophy and Theory. 47(4), pp. 312 - 329. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2014.976926
Authors | Eacott, Scott |
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Abstract | Whereas epistemological debates raged in educational administration during the Theory Movement, or inspired by intervention from Thom Greenfield, Richard Bates or Colin Evers and Gabriele Lakomski, epistemology and the quest for the scientific study of educational administration has somewhat diminished in the era of managerialism and the pursuit of research that has a direct impact on practice. Theoretically informed by the work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, I seek to re-engage with the epistemological preliminaries of scholarship in educational leadership, management and administration. In doing so, I argue that administration is central to our way of seeing the social world and raise questions about the embedded and embodied nature of the educational administration scholar and what this means for scholarship. A social ‘scientific’ approach to educational administration, as advocated for in this article, must break free of the ambition of grounding in (rational) reason, the arbitrary division of the social world (e.g. administrators/non-administrators) and instead, take for its object, rather than getting itself caught up in, the struggle for the monopoly of the legitimate representation of the social world. |
Year | 2015 |
Journal | Educational Philosophy and Theory |
Journal citation | 47 (4), pp. 312 - 329 |
ISSN | 0013-1857 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2014.976926 |
Page range | 312 - 329 |
Research Group | School of Education |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
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