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  • Is it all a 'game'? Analysing academic leadership through a Bourdieuian practice lens

    Author(s)
    Wilkinson, Jane
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    Wilkinson, Jane
    Year published
    2010
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    Much contemporary educational research draws upon Bourdieuian concepts such as field and the metaphor of the game for its inspiration. Yet his theory of practice remains an under-explored concept in educational leadership. Perhaps this is because the preceding concepts are better equipped to perform the required conceptual labour compared to earlier Bourdieuian theories of practice. However, an alternative possibility is that the emphasis on field and the analogy of the game has obscured subaltern readings of leadership practice. This paper draws on Alan Warde's argument for a 'reconfigured' notion of Bourdieuian practice, ...
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    Much contemporary educational research draws upon Bourdieuian concepts such as field and the metaphor of the game for its inspiration. Yet his theory of practice remains an under-explored concept in educational leadership. Perhaps this is because the preceding concepts are better equipped to perform the required conceptual labour compared to earlier Bourdieuian theories of practice. However, an alternative possibility is that the emphasis on field and the analogy of the game has obscured subaltern readings of leadership practice. This paper draws on Alan Warde's argument for a 'reconfigured' notion of Bourdieuian practice, based upon Alasdair MacIntyre's differentiation between the competitive logic of practice of a field and the cooperative logic of practice. Drawing on an autobiographical academic leadership story, the paper examines how an analysis of the characteristics of these overlapping but conceptually distinct logics of practice may expand understandings of academic leadership practice, and of practice per se.
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    Journal Title
    Critical Studies in Education
    Volume
    51
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480903450216
    Subject
    Education Systems not elsewhere classified
    Education Systems
    Specialist Studies in Education
    Sociology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/61619
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