Ideologies in Educational Administration and Leadership explores ideological dimensions of educational administration in a number of Western, Central European and Middle Eastern contexts as they influence or shape the understanding, analysis, and practice in the field covering a broad range of topics, such as ethics, governance, diversity, and power.

It will appeal to policy-makers, academics, as well as post-graduates in educational administration theory, and related courses in the ethics and politics of education, educational leadership, and organisational studies.

Editor's Introduction: Ideologies that Maintain and Constrain Eugenie A. Samier PART I: Philosophical and theoretical foundations 1 The ideology of skills and its implications for socially progressive learning in university cooperative education: Student and administrator perspectives Peter Milley 2 Against ideology: Democracy and the human interaction sphere Philip A. Woods 3 Language ideology in the discourse of educational leadership Yasemin Yildiz 4 Discourses and contexts of educational leadership: From ideology to dispositive Roberto Serpieri PART II: Ideologies of research and teaching 5 The contradictions of academic capitalism: The case of the Estonian R&D system Erkki Karo, Rainer Kattel and Ringa Raudla 6 Teachers' work in times of ideological and philosophical uncertainty in post-Soviet Ukraine Benjamin Kutsyuruba 7 Technology as ideology: Clearing an educational path between 'reason and experience' Carol E. Harris PART III: Contemporary and international issues 8 Thought leadership: Social media and leadership in an information--based society Read M. Diket and Sheri R. Klein 9 Critical perspectives on educational leadership in the context of the march of neoliberalism John Smyth 10 Demythologising 'leadership': The Trojan horse of managerialism Scott Eacott 11 Rhetorical topoi of academic ideology: Examining university strategies in the northeastern European extreme of the Humboldtian tradition Pertti Ahonen 12 Constructing universities as organisations: University reforms in Poland in the light of institutional theory Marek Kwiek 13 Decentralisation of education management and school leadership: The effects of public management reform ideologies Algirdas Monkevicius and Jolanta Urbanovic Index

Eugenie A. Samier is Director of Liberal Arts at the Royal University for Women, Kingdom of Bahrain.