Free Download Katrina MacDonald, "Socially Just Educational Leadership in Unjust Times: A Bourdieusian Study of Social Justice Educational Leadership Prac"
English | ISBN: 3031476158 | 2023 | 190 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book offers a richly observed study of three principals working in some of the most disadvantaged primary schools in Victoria, Australia. It explores their social justice understandings and practices in working to improve the educational outcomes for children in their schools, through autobiography, biographical interviews, in-depth interviews and observations. The work looks into their life histories, the formation of their primary and secondary habitus, and uncovers and examines their encounters with the public education field. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice and his ‘thinking tools’, the book investigates how the principals’ understandings of social justice are shaped by the intersection of their life and work histories.
