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Educational Leadership brings together innovative perspectives on the crucial role of theory and theorising in educational leadership at a time when the multiple pressures of marketisation, competition and system fragmentation dominate the educational landscape. This original and highly thought-provoking edited collection is a much-needed counterbalance to the anti-theoretical trends that have underpinned recent education reforms.

Steven J. Courtney is Lecturer in Management and Leadership at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK. His research brings socially critical and theoretical approaches to bear on the intersection of education policy, particularly concerning structural reform, and school leaders’ identities and practices.

Ruth McGinity is Lecturer in Educational Leadership and Policy at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK. Her main research interests focus on critical educational policy studies. She uses socially critical theories to illuminate power relations and the associated inequities resulting from neoconservative and neoliberal social and educational policy agendas.

Helen M. Gunter is Professor of Educational Policy and Sarah Fielden Professor of Education in The Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and recipient of the BELMAS Distinguished Service Award 2016.