INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE POLITICS OF EDUCATION:
LEADERSHIP & IDENTITY IN MULTIPLE CONTEXTS
2010 Politics of Education Yearbook
Edited by
Jeffrey S. Brooks, University of Missouri-Columbia
Brendan D. Maxcy, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
This special issue-International Perspectives on the Politics of Education: Leadership and Identity in Multiple Contexts-centers on interrelated themes of leadership and identity. The articles examine the interplay of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual identity with education and educational leadership within and across national borders. Organized into two sections, “The Politics of School Leadership in International Contexts” and “Identity and the Politics of Education in International Contexts,” the issue includes studies conducted in the Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, England, Australia and the United States.
Table of Contents
International Perspectives on the Politics of Education: Leadership & Identity in Multiple Contexts: An introduction to the Politics of Education Special Issue
Jeffrey S. Brooks, Brendan D. Maxcy, and Thu Suong Thi Nguyen
“Mullin’ the Yarndi” and Other Wicked Problems at a Multiracial Early Childhood Education Site in Regional Australia
Barbara Maria Kameniar, Alia Imtoual, and Debra Bradley
The Prophet and the Engineer Meet Under the Mango Tree: Leadership, Education, and Conflict in the Southern Philippines
Jeffrey Ayala Milligan
Educational Leadership and Globalization: Literacy for a Glocal Perspective
Jeffrey S. Brooks and Anthony H. Normore
Religious Conversion to Islam and Its Influence on Workplace Relationships in American and Egyptian Schools: A Case Study
Melanie Carol Brooks
Legitimating Leadership in Southern Thai Schools: Considering Local Responses to Neoliberal Reforms
Brendan Maxcy, Ekkarin Sungtong, and Thu Suong Thi Nguyen
Learning to be Political: New English Headteachers’ Roles
Gary M. Crow and Dick Weindling
Vietnamese Diasporic Placemaking: An Ethnographic Moment in Uneven Geographic Development
Thu Su'o'ng Thi Nguyên
Sites of Refuge: Refugees, Religiosity, and Public Schools in the United States
Bruce A. Collet
From Refuge to Polis: Shifting the Rationale for Religiosity in Schools
Don Dippo
Who Fits? A Dialog on the Politics of “Doing-Being” a Scholar
Autumn Tooms and Fenwick English
Shifting Scales of Education Politics in a Vernacular of Disruption and Dislocation
Hanne B. Mawhinney