Educational leadership: a nirvana or a battlefield? A glance into the higher education in the UK using Bourdieu

Despite an overwhelming abundance of on broader leadership issues, little work in educational leadership to have engaged in a theoretical about what constitutes practice in higher education. In previous special issue in this journal, by Lingard and Christie (2003), were surprised that Bourdieu’s had not found wider application in field of educational leadership, as much the research in this area is mainly , just like in Bourdieu’s work, the relationship between individual and structural determinism. informed by the French Pierre Bourdieu and in response Lingard and Christie, this paper to the long established critical in the educational leadership , to advocate that Bourdieusian helps to illuminate the multidimensional of power and within a higher education . The author suggests that of educational leadership the prism of Bourdieu’s ‘thinking ’ provides another opportunity to and analyse simultaneously the properties of the educational field the situated particularities of work. My curiosity drove me to Bourdieu’s ideas to unpack any between current power relations the field of higher education in the and my past experiences of Soviet .