Paradox and the School Leader: The Struggle for the Soul of the Principal in Neoliberal Times

This book proposes that paradox, as a theoretically rich and historically enduring concept, has significant potential for researchers in the field of critical leadership studies. By enriching its general form and infusing it with added complexity and theoretical influence, it is argued that paradox can be legitimately applied as a lens for examining and as a pedagogy for realising new learning possibilities.

The book takes paradoxes as formed out of the constitutive practices of discourse...