The Sage Handbook of Critical Educational Leadership

The Sage Handbook of Critical Educational Leadership brings together educational leaders and scholars from across English-speaking scholars to rethink what leadership means when it is criticalized.Rejecting narrow managerialist models and traditional hierarchies of schooling, this handbook embraces a broad, socially engaged conceptualisation of leadership rooted in critical theory, ethical praxis, and transformative pedagogies. Rather than offering a "how-to" guide, the handbook foregrounds leadership as an embodied, relational, and deeply political practice.Contributors draw on diverse positionalities, cultural traditions, and theoretical frameworks to explore how critical educational leadership is enacted in classrooms, communities, institutions, and public life.They illuminate the tensions educators face amid rising authoritarianism, surveillance, and assaults on academic freedom, arguing for leadership that resists reductive accountability regimes and instead fosters justice, solid