Aesthetic dimensions of educational administration and leadership / [edited by] Eugenie A. Samier and Richard J. Bates with Adam Stanley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Foundations and History of the Social Aesthetic -- Part One. Philosophical Foundations -- Imagination, Taste, the Sublime, and Genius in Administration: A Kantian Critique of Organisational Aesthetics -- The Art and Legacy of the Romantic Tradition: Implications for Power, Self (Determination and Education) -- Collingwood on Imagination, Expression and Action: Advancing an Aesthetically Critical Study of Educational Administration -- The Metaphysical Sources of Pragmatic Aesthetic Leadership -- On the Contribution of Critical Theory to Educational Administration and Leadership: Aesthetic Experience as Resistance to the 'Iron Cage' of Dominative Administrative Rationality -- Part Two. Aesthetic Sources for Administration and Leadership -- Aesthetic Leadership: Leaders as Architects -- The Victorian Hangover: A Lively Discussion of Colourful Headmasters in the works of Mr -- Dickens and Ms Bronte-- A Narrative Looking Glass for Leadership Studies in Organization: Cinema and Literature as Source and Reflective Medium -- Living Aesthetically and the Poetics of Dailiness for Leadership -- Part Three. Critical Applications to Administration and Leadership -- The Aesthetics of Charisma: Architectural, Theatrical, and Literary Dimensions -- Aesthetics and Art and their Place in the Theory and Practice of Leadership in Education -- Aesthetics, Heroism and the Cult of 'the Leader' -- Towards an Aesthetics for Educational Administration -- Notes on Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

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