This significant volume in the series explores the key concepts central to the work of Derrida and Lyotard, and reveals how these ideas challenge existing structures, hierarchies and models of thought. Deconstructing Educational Leadership provides concrete examples of the application of theories to policy, literature and empirical data, and identifies ideas which continue to impact contemporary practices of educational leadership and management.

Richard Niesche is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Education at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

1: Introducing Derrida and Lyotard 2: Why Bring Derrida and Lyotard to ELMA? 3: A Lyotardian Politics of the Standards Movement in Educational Leadership 4: Managing Performance: The Implementation of the English Health Schools Programme Pat Thomson and Vanessa Hayward 5: Witnessing Deconstructions of the Leader-follower Binary in ELMA 6: Limitations and Critiques of Derrida and Lyotard 7: Further Reading and Resources