Productive Conversations from a Feminist Perspective

Abstract

This paper is written as a response to the ideas put forward in Scott Eacott's text, Educational Administration Relationally written from a feminist perspective. The response is centered on five main ideas that are discussed in the book: (a) that the relational approach provides a new way of thinking about Educational Administration, (b) that there exist tensions in current approaches to research due to the embodied and embedded nature of the researcher vis-à-vis the research object, (c) that there is much value in historicizing temporal trajectories and the sociospatial contexts of research, (d) that interpretive description has the most to offer the study of the legitimation of social organizing, and (e) that there does not exist enough attention to language and discourse within current Educational Administrative research. The paper concludes with suggestions for further intradisciplinary dialogue that could deepen the sophistication of the relational approach over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]