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Books
2018, Beyond Leadership, Springer Singapore, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6568-2
,2017, Beyond Leadership A Relational Approach to Organizational Theory in Education, Springer
,2016, New Directions in Educational Leadership Theory
,2015, Educational leadership relationally: A theory and methodology for educational leadership, management and administration, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-911-1
,2011, Educational leadership and strategy in managerialist times, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-657-1
,2009, The strategic leadership of public school principals: An Australian study
,Book Chapters
2024, 'Theorising principals' resistance and compliance as part of school autonomy reforms in Australian public education', in Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration, Routledge, pp. 24 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003279334-3
,2022, 'Leading Under Speculation: Small Schools, Context, and the Principalship', in Leading under Pressure, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 53 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-358-220221005
,2022, 'A History of Leadership Thought', in The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse, pp. 25 - 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99097-8_15
,2022, 'A History of Leadership Thought', in The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39666-4_15-2
,2022, 'A History of Leadership Thought', in The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39666-4_15-1
,2021, 'Educational and instructional leadership', in Understanding Educational Leadership: Critical Perspectives and Approaches, Bloomsbury, London, pp. 221 - 236, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/understanding-educational-leadership-9781350081833/
,2021, 'Research methods in educational leadership', in Courtney S; Gunter HM; Niesche R; Trujillo T (ed.), Understanding educational leadership: critical perspectives and approaches, Bloomsbury, pp. 171 - 186, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/understanding-educational-leadership-9781350081819/
,2020, 'How not to be seduced by common-sense', in Brooks JS; Heffernan A (ed.), The school leadership survival guide: what to do when things go wrong, how to learn from mistakes, and why you should prepare for the worst, Information Age Publishing, https://www.infoagepub.com/products/The-School-Leadership-Survival-Guide
,2020, 'The principalship as a social relation', in Niesche R; Heffernan A (ed.), Theorsing identity and subjectivity in educational leadership, Routledge, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429032158-4/principalship-social-relation-scott-eacott?context=ubx&refId=bc89f494-091b-44bd-93ba-fb515deb39d4
,2020, 'Relational approaches to educational administration and leadership research', in Papa R; English FW (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, Oxford University press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.647
,2019, 'Management, Leadership, and Governance in Primary Education (Australia)', in , Bloomsbury Publishing, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350996267.0006
,2019, 'Management, Leadership, and Governance in Secondary Education (Australia)', in , Bloomsbury Publishing, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350996281.0016
,2018, 'Empowering educators through flipped school leadership?', in Netolicky DM; Andrews J; Paterson C (ed.), Flip the System Australia: What Matters in Education, Routledge, London, pp. 189 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429429620
,2018, 'Challenges for public education: Perils and possibilities for educational leadership, policy and social justice', in Wilkinson J; Niesche R; Eacott S (ed.), Challenges for public education: Reconceptualising educational leadership, policy and social justice as resources for hope, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 1 - 15, https://www.routledge.com/Challenges-for-Public-Education-Reconceptualising-Educational-Leadership/Wilkinson-Niesche-Eacott/p/book/9781138348226
,2018, 'Educational leadership research and the dismantling of public education', in Wilkinson J; Niesche R; Eacott S (ed.), Challenges for public education: Reconceptualising educational leadership, policy and social justice as resources for hope, Routledge, London, pp. 44 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429436765
,2018, 'Challenges for public education', in Challenges for Public Education, Routledge, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429436765-1
,2018, 'Relations, organising, leadership and education', in The Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology, pp. 641 - 661, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66005-9_32
,2018, 'Beyond the normative: Theorising maladministration relationally', in International Perspectives on Maladministration in Education: Theories, Research, and Critiques, pp. 79 - 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315150222
,2018, 'The Principal and School Improvement Theorising Discourse, Policy, and Practice Series Editors' Foreword', in PRINCIPAL AND SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT: THEORISING DISCOURSE, POLICY, AND PRACTICE, SPRINGER-VERLAG SINGAPORE PTE LTD, pp. V - VII, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000455119300001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2018, 'Advancing Educational Administration Relationally', in Educational Leadership Theory, Springer Singapore, pp. 263 - 276, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6568-2_17
,2018, 'Beyond “Leadership”', in Educational Leadership Theory, Springer Singapore, pp. 95 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6568-2_5
,2018, 'Embedded and Embodied Auctors', in Educational Leadership Theory, Springer Singapore, pp. 81 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6568-2_4
,2018, 'From “Leading” to “Organizing”', in Educational Leadership Theory, Springer Singapore, pp. 3 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6568-2_1
,2018, 'Overcoming Analytical Dualism', in Educational Leadership Theory, Springer Singapore, pp. 129 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6568-2_7
,2018, 'Productive Thinking', in Educational Leadership Theory, Springer Singapore, pp. 143 - 163, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6568-2_8
,2018, 'Response to Commentaries', in Educational Leadership Theory, Springer Singapore, pp. 251 - 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6568-2_16
,2018, 'The Matter of Context', in Educational Leadership Theory, Springer Singapore, pp. 113 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6568-2_6
,2018, 'The Relational Turn in Social Sciences', in Educational Leadership Theory, Springer Singapore, pp. 25 - 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6568-2_2
,2018, 'Toward Relations in Educational Administration Theory', in Educational Leadership Theory, Springer Singapore, pp. 43 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6568-2_3
,2017, 'Beyond leadership: towards a ‘relational’ way of thinking', in Lakomski G; Eacott S; Evers CW (ed.), Questioning leadership: new directions for educational organisations, Routledge, London, pp. 17 - 30, https://www.routledge.com/Questioning-Leadership-New-directions-for-educational-organisations/Lakomski-Eacott-Evers/p/book/9781138183162
,2017, 'The future of leadership: New directions for leading and learning', in Lakomski G; Eacott S; Evers CW (ed.), Questioning leadership: new directions for educational organisations, Routledge, London, pp. 178 - 191, https://www.routledge.com/Questioning-Leadership-New-directions-for-educational-organisations/Lakomski-Eacott-Evers/p/book/9781138183162
,2017, 'Sociological Approaches to Educational Administration', in Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, Springer Singapore, pp. 2182 - 2187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_285
,2016, 'Demythologising ‘leadership’: The Trojan horse of managerialism', in Samier E (ed.), Ideologies in Educational Administration and Leadership, Routledge, New York, NY, pp. 159 - 175, https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138958586
,2016, 'Disruptions in production: Seeding the practice of questioning', in Ellis AL (ed.), Ed.D. Programs as Incubators for Social Justice Leadership, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-396-4
,2016, 'Challenging leadership: The issues', in Questioning Leadership: New Directions for Educational Organisations, pp. 3 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315678610
,2016, 'Performance + leadership: Shifting institutional research performance', in Normore A; Brooks JS (ed.), The dark side of leadership: Identifying and overcoming unethical practice in organizations, Emerald, Bingley, UK, pp. 177 - 194, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S1479-366020160000026011
,2016, 'Disruptions in Production', in Ed.D. Programs as Incubators for Social Justice Leadership, SensePublishers, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-396-4_1
,2016, 'Mobilising Bourdieu to think anew about educational leadership research', in Murphy M; Costa C (ed.), Theory as Method in Research: On Bourdieu, Social Theory and Education, Routledge, London, pp. 117 - 131, https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138900349
,2016, 'Sociological approaches to educational administration', in Peters M (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, Springer, Singapore, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_285-1
,2015, 'Sociological approaches to educational administration and leadership', in Burgess D; Newton P (ed.), Educational Administration and Leadership: Theoretical Foundations, Routledge, New York, pp. 173 - 185, https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138825765
,2013, 'Empirical leadership research: letting the data speak for themselves', in Eacott S; Niesche R (ed.), Empirical leadership research: letting the data speak for themselves, Untested Ideas Center, Niagara Falls,, pp. 1 - 14
,2013, 'Research as a political practice: the fallacy of data speaking for themselves', in Eacott S; Niesche R (ed.), Empirical leadership research: letting the data speak for themselves, Untested Ideas Center, Niagara Falls, pp. 215 - 229
,2011, 'An Alternate Research Programme', in School Leadership and Strategy in Managerialist Times, SensePublishers, pp. 109 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-657-1_7
,2011, 'Engaging with the Literature', in School Leadership and Strategy in Managerialist Times, SensePublishers, pp. 9 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-657-1_2
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