All Outputs (7)

Education and transformation: rethinking educational leadership (2023)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, key ideas relating to educational leadership, and specifically transformational leadership, are presented. Transformational leadership as presented within mainstream educational leadership and management literature is critiqued as co... Read More about Education and transformation: rethinking educational leadership.

Gramsci's contemporary relevance: working ‘in and against’ the neoliberal state (2023)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, the intention is to connect Gramsci’ intellectual legacy with the contemporary contexts and issues, and to respond to the cultural theorist Stuart Hall’s exhortation to ‘think our problems in a Gramscian way’. The chapter opens by se... Read More about Gramsci's contemporary relevance: working ‘in and against’ the neoliberal state.

Antonio Gramsci: his life and ideas (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter presents a brief intellectual biography of Antonio Gramsci to show both the breadth of his intellectual thinking and the important links between his intellectual contribution and his political activism. The chapter begins with an overvie... Read More about Antonio Gramsci: his life and ideas.

On education and the role of intellectuals (2023)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, Gramsci’s key ideas relating to education are presented. Central to Gramsci’s thinking was the relationship between education and political change, and much of his own political activity was defined by his integration of intellectual... Read More about On education and the role of intellectuals.

Measuring privatisation in education: methodological challenges and possibilities (2023)
Book Chapter

The passive revolution in English school reform : Hegemony from above (2023)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, we analyse education reform in England over a period of more than half a century. Progressive advance in the post-war years posed a serious threat to the status and stability of dominant groups, so there has taken place a sustained e... Read More about The passive revolution in English school reform : Hegemony from above.

Challenging the neoliberal restructuring of public education : Union renewal and counter-hegemony from below (2023)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, the experience of Europe’s largest education union, the UK’s National Education Union (NEU), is explored as an exercise in union renewal focused on developing a counter-hegemonic response to the neoliberal restructuring of the Englis... Read More about Challenging the neoliberal restructuring of public education : Union renewal and counter-hegemony from below.