Making Space for Cultural Equality in Educational Leadership: School Ethos and Postcolonial Pedagogy

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Mathew Barnard (Keele University, UK)

Making Space for Cultural Equality in Educational Leadership

School Ethos and Postcolonial Pedagogy

Mathew Barnard (Keele University, UK)

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Routledge
27 October 2025

Series: Routledge Research in Decolonizing Education

This book foregrounds postcolonial theory as a lens through which to explore the concept of ‘global heritage’ and argues that the meso-level spaces of institutional ethos and cultural pedagogy must take an active role in the pursuit of cultural equality.

Through interviews and accounts of observational, empirical data, chapters draw attention to how the cultural capital of Global Majority students is institutionally positioned as a racialised and inferior cultural capital that is constantly required to ‘prove itself’ in the Western school. Ultimately, the book contributes to international discussion on decolonising education and the spaces within in order to enact change, further the field, and more precisely to recognise the importance of global heritage as vital to a transformative understanding of the West’s cultural identity within a globalised world.

This book will appeal to scholars, researchers and post-graduate researchers in the fields of multicultural education, school leadership, management and administration, and education policy and politics more broadly. Those interested in social justice, ideas of cultural and racial equality, and the sociology of education more broadly will also benefit from the volume.

By: Mathew Barnard (Keele University UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9781032390314
ISBN 10: 103239031X
Series: Routledge Research in Decolonizing Education
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 27 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: Making Space for Transformative Leadership 2. The Colonial Metanarrative: the Expansion of Europe; the Expansion of England 3. Cultural Securitisation and the Meso-level Space: Towards a Decolonising Global Education 4. An Empirical Study of Leadership, Ethos and Cultural Capital in Institution A 5. An Empirical Study of Leadership, Ethos and Cultural Capital in Institution B 6. An Empirical Study of Leadership, Ethos and Cultural Capital in Institution C 7. Cultural Emancipation

Mathew Barnard is Lecturer in Education, Keele University, UK