Leadership development as a method of enquiry : insights from a poststructuralist perspective

Elliott, Carole and Stead, Valerie Susan (2015) Leadership development as a method of enquiry : insights from a poststructuralist perspective. In: Handbook of Research Methods on Human Resource Development :. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 358-366. ISBN 9781781009239

Abstract

In this chapter we explore how adopting a post-structuralist sensitivity to leadership development practice opens opportunities for ‘research in action’ within the classroom. Within it we present examples of how leadership development methods can also act simultaneously as methods of enquiry, constituting a research–teaching cycle.