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Book Chapters
2011, 'Lacking a Shared Vision', in School Leadership and Strategy in Managerialist Times, SensePublishers, pp. 83 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-657-1_5
,2011, 'Leadership Preparation and School Planning', in School Leadership and Strategy in Managerialist Times, SensePublishers, pp. 63 - 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-657-1_4
,2011, 'New Look Strategic Leaders or a New Look at Strategy?', in School Leadership and Strategy in Managerialist Times, SensePublishers, pp. 117 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-657-1_8
,2011, 'Strategy and the Principal', in School Leadership and Strategy in Managerialist Times, SensePublishers, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-657-1_1
,2011, 'Strategy as Leadership', in School Leadership and Strategy in Managerialist Times, SensePublishers, pp. 97 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-657-1_6
,2011, 'What Do We Have Here?', in School Leadership and Strategy in Managerialist Times, SensePublishers, pp. 39 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-657-1_3
,2009, 'Teaching educational leadership and administration in Australia', in Gunter H; Fitzgerald T (ed.), Educational administration and history: The state of the field, Routledge, London, pp. 69 - 80
,Edited Books
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
Lakomski G; Eacott S; Evers CW, (eds.), 2017, Questioning Leadership, Routledge, UK
Eacott S; Evers CW, (ed.), 2016, New Directions in Educational Leadership Theory, Routledge, UK
Journal articles
2024, 'School provision, workforce distribution, housing, and the staffing of schools: The case of Sydney, Australia', International Journal of Educational Development, 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103110
,2024, 'Housing the Teacher Workforce: A Scoping Review', Education Sciences, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci14050537
,2024, 'The systemic implications of housing affordability for the teacher shortage: the case of New South Wales, Australia', Australian Educational Researcher, 51, pp. 733 - 755, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00621-z
,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, 'Schools and the city: workforce distribution, housing and city schools', Australian Educational Researcher, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00758-5
,2024, 'The effect of abolishing the New Schools Policy on the provision of schools and enrolments in Australia', Journal of Educational Administration and History, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2024.2353020
,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, 'The principled principal: the case of Australian Steiner schools', International Journal of Educational Management, 37, pp. 737 - 751, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-10-2022-0411
,2023, 'Schooling for equitable excellence: principles of systemic design', Journal of Educational Administration, 61, pp. 304 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JEA-10-2022-0173
,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, 'Leading schools for specific purposes: a relational analysis of provision', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 55, pp. 146 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2022.2101989
,2023, 'Schooling on the margins: the problems and possibilities of Montessori schools in Australia', Cambridge Journal of Education, 53, pp. 551 - 566, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2023.2189228
,2022, 'Pracademia: an answer but not the answer to an enduring question', Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 7, pp. 57 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JPCC-12-2020-0100
,2022, 'A relational enquiry into the provision of small schools', International Journal of Educational Research Open, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedro.2021.100119
,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
,2022, 'Philosophy of education in a new key: Exploring new ways of teaching and doing ethics in education in the 21st century', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 54, pp. 1178 - 1197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.1880387
,2022, 'The principals’ workday: a relational analysis', International Journal of Leadership in Education, 25, pp. 258 - 271, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2020.1725645
,2021, 'Higher education leadership and context: a study of university vice-chancellors and presidents', International Journal of Educational Management, 35, pp. 1063 - 1073, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-02-2021-0061
,2021, 'Regional secondary school consolidation: theorizing an innovative model', Discourse, 42, pp. 323 - 336, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2019.1636209
,2020, 'COVID-19 and inequities in Australian education - insights on federalism, autonomy, and access', International Studies in Educational Administration, 48, pp. 6 - 14
,2020, 'Australian educational leadership research', Leading and Managing, 26, pp. 77 - 83
,2020, 'François dépelteau and the generation of a relational intellectual community', Digithum, 2020, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i26.374154
,2020, 'Relational Approaches to Educational Administration Research', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.647
,2020, 'Regional and rural school consolidation: a scoping study of research literature', International Journal of Educational Management, 34, pp. 477 - 491, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-08-2019-0318
,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, 'Supplementary no more: a relational analysis of supplementary education in China', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 52, pp. 373 - 384, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2020.1726302
,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, 'Educational leadership research, Twitter and the curation of followership', Leadership, Education, Personality: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2, pp. 91 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1365/s42681-020-00016-z
,2019, 'Ranting, raving and complaining: reflections on working against orthodoxy', International Journal of Leadership in Education, 22, pp. 774 - 782, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2018.1492025
,2019, 'Taking context seriously: a relational approach to school leadership', The Australian Educational Leader, 41, pp. 28 - 30
,2019, 'Regional secondary school consolidation: A rationale and study protocol', Issues in Educational Research, 29, pp. 678 - 694, http://www.iier.org.au/iier29/eacott.pdf
,2019, 'Starting points for a relational approach to organizational theory: An overview', Research in Educational Administration and Leadership, 4, pp. 16 - 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.30828/real/2019.1.2
,2019, 'The problems and possibilities of the relational approach: An introduction to the special issue', Research in Educational Administration and Leadership, 4, pp. 1 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.30828/real/2019.1.1
,2019, 'The relational approach and social epistemology in educational leadership: A rejoinder', Research in Educational Administration and Leadership, 4, pp. 166 - 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.30828/real/2019.1.7
,2018, 'Social epistemology and the theory turn: a response to Niesche', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 50, pp. 316 - 324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2018.1508128
,2018, 'Theoretical notes on a relational approach to principals’ time use', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 50, pp. 284 - 298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2018.1478804
,2018, 'Fluctuations in value: the shifting worth of journal articles in educational administration', Critical Studies in Education, 59, pp. 187 - 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2016.1186708
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