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Alexander Gardner-McTaggart is a senior lecturer in educational leadership at the Manchester Institute of Education as well as academic lead for transnational flexible learning for the University of Manchester. His scholarship, research and teaching seek to better understand and articulate globalising pressures on education and its leadership through the lens of equity, distinction and power. His research interests are in educational leadership, international education, and global citizenship education.
In an increasingly fragmented and competitive education system, recruiting the ‘best’ school leaders is based on fabricated notions of leadership. A recent job advert earned derision for being...
Continue reading blog postIn the movie satire Don’t Look Up, a deadly comet threatens to hit earth. Two astronomers recognise the impending disaster, but their warnings remain unheeded. The US President, experts and the...
Continue reading blog postIn Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the witches exacerbate divisions, push ambition through brute force, hierarchy and power; their interventions end in the wicked destruction of leadership potential and...
Continue reading blog postDido Harding was appointed as a Conservative peer (Baroness Harding of Winscombe) by then prime minister David Cameron in 2014. She is head of the NHS test and trace programme, and has been...
Continue reading blog postEducation has been practised and conceptualised internationally in ways that demonstrate its increasing privatisation, enabled through a dependency on numerical data and an adherence to a social...
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