Legitimating Leadership in Southern Thai Schools: Considering Local Responses to Neoliberal Reforms

Autor/inn/en	Maxcy, Brendan; Sungtong, Ekkarin; Nguyen, Thu Suong Thi
Titel	Legitimating Leadership in Southern Thai Schools: Considering Local Responses to Neoliberal Reforms
Quelle	In: Educational Policy, 24 (2010) 1, S.110-136 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-9048
DOI	10.1177/0895904809354320
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Political Attitudes; Religious Factors; Government Role; Secondary Schools; Principals; Minority Groups; War; Islam; Economic Factors; Educational Policy; Educational History; Educational Change; Educational Environment; Interviews; Administrator Attitudes; Government School Relationship; State Schools; Ethnic Groups; Conflict; Leadership; Administrator Role; Discourse Analysis; Politics of Education; Thailand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Sekundarschule; Principal; Schulleiter; Ethnische Minderheit; Krieg; Ökonomischer Faktor; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsreform; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Staatliche Schule; Ethnie; Konflikt; Führung; Führungsposition; Diskursanalyse; Educational policy
Abstract	Mounting religious-ethnic tensions and broad-scale reform have precipitated reconsideration of the mission, traditions, operations and institutional positions of government schools in southern Thailand. The authors report on a study of a dozen schools located in four border provinces adapting to national reforms and regional unrest. The authors find emergent strategies conditioned by reform policies whereby school leaders seek to reorganize, reestablish, and reposition schools in their respective communities. Through a critical analysis of leadership, the authors explore the interplay of local strategies and broader neoliberal reform logics oriented to relegitimate the Thai state. Drawing on work by Robertson and Dale, and James Conroy, we discuss near-term displacement of legitimation crises through neoliberal localization that may prove problematic over the long haul. (Contains 6 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10