Educational Leadership: cultivating plurality in a 'public space' (kartoniertes Buch)

Arendt's notions of public space, plurality, thinking and judgement, throughout her major works, provide philosophical resources for challenging current views of leadership. Arendt's notion of public space provides for unique individuals to act together without giving up their distinctiveness, seeking an elusive balance between conflicting ways of being and acting with others together around common projects. Using Arendt's notion of public space, along with her views on thinking and judgement, a more democratic, dialogic view of educational leadership is possible, which recognises plurality, and identifies educational leadership in relationships, as acting 'in concert' with teachers to engage the collective responsibility for education of young people in 'renewing a common world'. Arendt identifies the capacity for humans to make a difference in the world and the responsibility for judgement, thinking and action in the company of others that accompanies this possibility.