Select Publications
Book Chapters
2011, 'A Foucauldian toolbox for educational leadership', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 17 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000289779000002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2011, 'Disciplinary regimes under self-governance', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 64 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000289779000004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2011, 'Discourses of educational leadership', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 41 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000289779000003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2011, 'Foucault and Educational Leadership Disciplining the principal Introduction', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 1 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000289779000001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2011, 'Leading and managing as ethical work', in FOUCAULT AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DISCIPLINING THE PRINCIPAL, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 104 - 135, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000289779000005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2005, 'Disengaging leadership: educational administration and management as a field of scientific knowledge', in Yamanashi J (ed.), Researching Identity, Diversity & Education: Surpassing the Norm, Post Pressed, Teneriffe, pp. 20 - 35
,Edited Books
Steven C; Gunter H; Niesche R; Trujillo T, (eds.), 2021, Understanding Educational Leadership: Critical Perspectives and Approaches, Bloomsbury, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/understanding-educational-leadership-9781350081819/
Niesche R; Heffernan A, (ed.), 2020, Theorising subjectivity and identity in educational leadership research, Routledge, https://www.routledge.com/Theorising-Identity-and-Subjectivity-in-Educational-Leadership-Research/Niesche-Heffernan/p/book/9780367145293
Wilkinson J; Niesche R; Eacott S, (eds.), 2018, Challenges for public education: Reconceptualising educational leadership. policy and social justice as resources for hope, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, https://www.routledge.com/Challenges-for-Public-Education-Reconceptualising-Educational-Leadership/Wilkinson-Niesche-Eacott/p/book/9781138348226
Journal articles
2024, 'School transformation in minoritized settings: a practice architectures lens', International Journal of Leadership in Education, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2024.2342296
,2024, 'The spatiality of economic maldistribution in public-school funding in Australia: still a poisonous debate', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 56, pp. 180 - 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2023.2174952
,2023, 'Principals’ perceptions of school autonomy and educational leadership', Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 51, pp. 1260 - 1277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17411432211034174
,2023, 'School autonomy reform and social justice: a policy overview of Australian public education (1970s to present)', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 307 - 327, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-021-00482-4
,2023, 'Autonomy, Instructional Leadership and Improving Outcomes–The LSLD Reforms in NSW, Australia', Leadership and Policy in Schools, 22, pp. 811 - 824, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2022.2081212
,2023, 'Election or selection? School autonomy reform, governance and the politics of school councils', Journal of Education Policy, 38, pp. 547 - 566, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2021.2022766
,2023, 'Headteachers and the pandemic: Themes from a review of literature on leadership for professional learning in complex times', Professional Development in Education, 49, pp. 1103 - 1116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2023.2229333
,2022, 'Managerial, professional and collective school autonomies: using material semiotics to examine the multiple realities of school autonomy', International Journal of Leadership in Education, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2022.2108507
,2020, 'COVID-19 and inequities in Australian education - insights on federalism, autonomy, and access', International Studies in Educational Administration, 48, pp. 6 - 14
,2020, 'School autonomy, marketisation and social justice: the plight of principals and schools', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 52, pp. 432 - 447, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2020.1818699
,2020, 'The constitution of school autonomy in Australian public education: areas of paradox for social justice', International Journal of Leadership in Education, 25, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2020.1781934
,2020, 'Critical perspectives in educational leadership', Leading and Managing, 26, pp. 40 - 45, http://www.acel.org.au/acel/ACELWEB/ACELWEB/Publications/Leading___Managing.aspx
,2019, 'Community empowerment? School autonomy, school boards and depoliticising governance', Australian Educational Researcher, 46, pp. 565 - 582, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-019-00303-9
,2018, 'Foucault and School Leadership Research: Bridging Theory and Method', BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, 66, pp. 418 - 420, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2018.1443724
,2017, 'Psycho-politicising educational subjectivity: A post humanist consideration of Ranciere and Lacan', Educational Philosophy and Theory, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2017.1402677
,2017, 'Critical perspectives in educational leadership: A new 'theory turn'?', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2017.1395600
,2015, 'What use is Foucault in education today?', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2015.1034575
,2015, 'Advocating a Post-structuralist Politics for Educational Leadership', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47, pp. 372 - 386, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2014.976930
,2015, 'Guest Editorial', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47, pp. 113 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2013.793923
,2015, 'Governmentality and My School: School Principals in Societies of Control', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47, pp. 133 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2013.793925
,2015, 'Guest Editorial', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47, pp. 113 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2013.793923
,2014, 'Issues of Indigenous representation: White advocacy and the complexities of ethical leadership', International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 27, pp. 509 - 526, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2013.771223
,2014, 'School reform and the emotional demands of principals: Lorna's story', School Leadership and Management, 34, pp. 120 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2013.856295
,2013, 'Deploying educational leadership as a form of governmentality', Discourse, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2013.805018
,2013, 'Politicizing articulation: Applying Lyotard's work to the use of standards in educational leadership', International Journal of Leadership in Education, 16, pp. 220 - 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2012.688874
,2013, 'Foucault, counter-conduct and school leadership as a form of political subjectivity', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 45, pp. 144 - 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2013.768968
,2013, 'Guest Editorial', Educational Philosophy and Theory, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2013.793923
,2013, 'Creating ‘temperamental artistes’: A longitudinal study of leadership capacity building in disadvantaged schools', Leadership and Policy Quarterly, 2, pp. 181 - 197, http://www.untestedideas.com/journals.php?journal=LPQ
,2012, ''It's almost like a White school now': Racialised complexities, Indigenous representation and school leadership', Critical Studies in Education, 53, pp. 169 - 182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2012.672330
,2012, 'Emotions and Ethics: A Foucauldian framework for becoming an ethical educator', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 44, pp. 276 - 288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00655.x
,2012, 'Productive engagements with student difference: Supporting equity through cultural recognition', British Educational Research Journal, 38, pp. 333 - 348, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01411926.2010.544713
,2012, 'Heads on the block', DISCOURSE-STUDIES IN THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF EDUCATION, 33, pp. 457 - 464, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2012.681903
,2011, 'Foregrounding issues of equity and diversity in educational leadership', School Leadership and Management, 31, pp. 65 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2010.545381
,2011, 'Curriculum leadership in remote Indigenous communities', Leading and Managing, 17, pp. 45 - 58
,2010, 'Discipline through documentation: A form of governmentality for school principals', International Journal of Leadership in Education, 13, pp. 249 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603121003692967
,2010, 'Challenges for teacher education: The mismatch between beliefs and practice in remote Indigenous contexts', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 38, pp. 161 - 175, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13598661003677580
,2010, 'Curriculum reform in remote areas: The need for productive leadership', Journal of Educational Administration, 48, pp. 102 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09578231011015449
,2009, 'Reforming schools: A case study of New Basics in a primary school', International Journal of Leadership in Education, 12, pp. 115 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603120802485094
,2008, 'Leadership gender & culture in education. Male and female perspectives', AUSTRALIAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER, 35, pp. 147 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03216879
,2008, 'Equity, mathematics and classroom practice: developing rich mathematical experiences for disadvantaged students', Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 13, pp. 21 - 27
,Reports
2021, High-impact school leadership in regional, rural and remote schools, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28010, https://www.unsworks.unsw.edu.au/permalink/f/5gm2j3/unsworks_modsunsworks_75297
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