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Why Making Trouble In Educational Leadership Matters
» Prof Kay Fuller (United Kingdom)University of Nottingham
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Bio: Prof Kay Fuller is a Leverhulme Research Fellow (2022-23). Her project, Re-imagining Feminist Leadership Praxis in Higher Education, builds on her recent monograph, Feminist perspectives on contemporary educational leadership (Routledge 2022). In that work, she identified research was needed into how feminist theories, values, politics and commitment to gender justice underpin leadership practice. Kay has worked in five mixed comprehensive schools in the West Midlands as English teacher, subject leader, and deputy headteacher. She is a former Initial Teacher Educator and is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Management in the Centre for Research in Educational Leadership and Management at the University of Nottingham. Kay teaches on the MA in Educational Leadership and Management and Education courses and supervises doctoral students with similar interests in education and educational leadership. Kay was an elected member of BELMAS Council and remains a founding co-convenor of the Gender and Leadership Research Interest Group. She is a member of the international Women Leading Education and WomenEd networks and member of Bartley Green Academy Trust.
Abstract: Drawing on 20+ years of research and three decades of teaching and leading in education, I will talk about what has troubled me over the years, as learner, educator, leader, and scholar, and why those things disturbed me. I will show how my concerns led to scholarship that for some, appears to make trouble and, for others, speaks to lived realities. I will talk about what troubles school leaders in England, women and men alike, and how they have drawn on long held and deep-rooted values to take the trouble to challenge dominant discourses about education and leadership. In this talk, I will draw on the recently published monograph Feminist perspectives on contemporary educational leadership (Routledge 2022) as well as several other projects.
