Explicating the Incongruent Theories of Action Between Neo-Managerial Leadership Traditions and Educational Psychology

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Abstract

In this article, using theory building methods, I explicate an underexplored incongruence within educational leadership that reinforces the “self-sustaining ideology” (Eacott, 2022, p. 159) of the neo-managerial leadership paradigm. I argue that a substantive understanding of the nature of learning, the unambiguous goal of education, was and is, systematically repressed and distorted by the field’s foundations in scientific management. My purpose is to build new theories about school organizations, school improvement, and scholarship that are more theoretically congruent with educational psychology and the goals of substantive, lasting and transferable learning and to utilize such theory to reimagine and redesign policy and practice to achieve these goals.

Author

• Steve P. Myran, Old Dominion University