"Outsiders within"? Deconstructing the Educational Administration Scholar

Autor/inn/en	Wilkinson, Jane; Eacott, Scott
Titel	"Outsiders within"? Deconstructing the Educational Administration Scholar
Quelle	In: International Journal of Leadership in Education, 16 (2013) 2, S.191-204 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-3124
DOI	10.1080/13603124.2012.750762
Schlagwörter	Educational Administration; Social Capital; Ethnography; Theory Practice Relationship; Educational Researchers; Problem Solving; Feminism; Scholarship; Ethics; Moral Values; Criticism; College Faculty; Socioeconomic Background; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Sozialkapital; Ethnografie; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Erziehungswissenschaftler; Erziehungswissenschaftlerin; Problemlösen; Feminismus; Scholarships; Stipendium; Ethik; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Kritik; Fakultät; Sozioökonomische Lage; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	In this paper, we weave the auto-ethnographic narratives of the two authors with Bourdieu's key concepts of "habitus," "field" and "capital," as we seek to bring to a level of explicitness the reflexive lens which has shaped our scholarly work. In particular, we examine the process of becoming educational administration academics who share a scholarly disposition towards critical approaches to theory and practice. Such a location positions our work as marginal at best in educational administration scholarship and research, for it is a field characterized primarily by an orientation towards problem-solving and scientific rationality. We explore how our positioning as "outsiders within" the field, combined with our multiple positions in fields such as feminism, unionism, schools and academia, has shaped a disposition towards critical scholarship. We suggest that the resources, which a disposition towards the critical may engender, are urgently required forms of capital at a time when there may be a powerful political investment in ignoring or overlooking the moral, ethical and political life force of educational administration scholarship as a potentially fertile site of intellectual activity. (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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