This paper traces the historical origins of formal and informal lifelong learning to argue that optimal twenty-first-century education can and should draw on the traditions of both the school and the coffee house or cafe. For some time now, educational policy documents and glossy school brochures have come wrapped in the mantle of lifelong…

The paper explores the call to use the emotions more fully in the interests of excellent leadership, through understanding why and how they have become desirable in the performance of educational work. The analysis that is presented seeks neither to endorse nor reject out of hand the new forms of leaderliness that are evoked through the call to be…

This article addresses risk and its minimization as a powerful rationality for driving leadership practices in contemporary schools. It explores risk-consciousness as "a moral climate of politics" (Giddens 2002) and as a management imperative that impacts on any contemporary organization, including schools. The impact of risk-consciousness on the…

Examines effects of corporate practice on schooling and teachers' professional development. The struggle over who owns educational knowledge has profound implications for professional identity formation. As schools are reshaped into corporations, administrators and teachers are pressured to improve their productivity and develop into enterprising…