Aesthetic dimensions of educational administration & leadership / Eugenie A. Samier and Richard Bates.

"First published in 2006. First issued in paperback ed 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foundations and history of the social aesthetic / Eugenie A. Samier, Richard J. Bates and Adam Stanley -- Imagination, taste, the sublime, and genius in administration: a Kantian critique of organisational aesthetics / Eugenie A. Samier -- The art and legacy of the Romantic tradition: implications for power, self-determination and education / Eugenie A. Samier and Adam Stanley -- Collingwood on imagination, expression and action: advancing an aesthetically critical study of educational administration / Carol E. Harris -- The metaphysical sources of a pragmatic aesthetic leadership / Spencer J. Maxcy -- Aesthetic experience as resistance to the 'iron cage' of dominative administrative rationality / Peter Milley -- Aesthetic leadership: leaders as architects / Sheri Klein and Read Diket -- The Victorian hangover: colourful headmasters in the works of Mr Dickens and Ms Bronte ̈̈/ Adam Stanley -- A narrative looking glass for leadership studies in administration: cinema and literature as source and reflective medium / Julie Stockton -- Living aesthetically and the poetics of dailiness for leadership / Celeste Snowber -- The aesthetics of charisma: architectural, theatrical, and literary dimensions / Eugenie A. Samier -- Aesthetics and art: their place in the theory and practice of leadership in education / Peter Ribbins -- Aesthetics, heroism and the cult of 'the leader' / Peter Gronn -- Towards an aesthetics for educational administration / Richard J. Bates.