First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

John Smyth is Associate Professor in Social and Administrative Studies and Chair of the Education Studies Centre at Deakin University.

Leadership, power, and symbols in educational administration / Peter Watkins ; Toward a critical practice of leadership / William Foster ; New leadership and the possibility of educational reform / Lawrence Angus ; Educational leadership, a feministcritique and reconstruction / Jill Blackmore ; Leadership and the rationalization of society / Richard Bates ; Educational leadership as reflective action / John Codd ; A pedagogical and educative view of leadership / John Smyth ; In defence of organizational democracy / Fazal Rizvi.