New Beginnings, Repeated: The Continuing Search for Educational Leadership

The purpose of this scholarly essay is to offer a number of logics of academic arguments as follows:  leadership as contested/seductive theories, leadership as an organizing activity, and leadership as praxis. Each academic argument presents its own theoretical, communicative and practical challenges, often necessitating a beginning again in search of leadership’s ontological status; that is, in what sense is leadership real?  Methodologically, the authors rely on asking pragmatic and constructivist questions insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(i.e. what difference does it make?); regarding problematic relationships among diverse researchers and between themselves and practitioners. With some amount of courage and a great deal of ignorance, the authors jump into the rabbit hole of relational sociology, leaving answers as next steps to the wisdom of our readers