This crucial guide answers the questions that arise from designing, conducting and communicating research in the field of educational leadership and management. The authors bring different theoretical and research perspectives to the discipline and provide commentary and resources to help postgraduate students, practitioner researchers, supervisors and early career researchers to understand what it means to do research from a critical perspective. This must-have companion is the only book in the field that coherently shows what critical approaches actually mean and how they may be carried through from conceptualisation, to design, to carrying out and writing up the research, and beyond.

Author Biography

Jill Blackmore is Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Education, and Director of the Centre for Research in Educational Futures and Innovation at Deakin University, Australia. Helen Gunter is Professor of Education Policy, Leadership and Management in the School of Education, University of Manchester, UK. Pat Thomson PSM, PhD, FAcSS is Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is a Visiting Professor at the University of the Free State, South Africa, Deakin University, Australia and The University of Iceland.