Challenges for public education : reconceptualising educational leadership, policy and social justice as resources for hope / edited by Jane Wilkinson, Richard Niesche and Scott Eacott.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Challenges for public education : perils and possibilities for educational leadership, policy and social justice / Jane Wilkinson, Richard Niesche and Scott Eacott -- Re-imagining leadership as a resource of and for educational practice/praxis in neo-liberal times / Jane Wilkinson -- School and principal autonomy : resisting, not manufacturing the neoliberal subject / Richard Niesche -- Educational leadership research and the dismantling of public education : a relational approach / Scott Eacott -- Competitive entrepreneurship and community empowerment : competing practices of a school autonomy reform / Brad Gobby -- Exploring a school improvement initiative : leadership and policy enactment in Queensland's independent public schools / Amanda Heffernan -- Depoliticisation and education policy / Helen M. Gunter -- Oh to be in England? : the production of an unpublic state system / Pat Thomson -- Shifting logics : education and privatisation the Swedish way / Nafsika Alexiadou, Lisbeth Lundahl, Linda R�onnberg -- To be "in the tent" or abandon it? : a school clusters policy and the responses of New Zealand educational leaders / Martin Thrupp -- The rise of authoritarian neoliberalism : how neoliberalism threatens public education and democracy / David Hursh -- Restoring the "publicness" of public education / Alan Reid.