| Foucault and educational leadership: Disciplining the principal R Niesche Routledge, 2011 | 187 | 2011 |
| Emotions and ethics: A Foucauldian framework for becoming an ethical educator R Niesche, M Haase Educational philosophy and theory 44 (3), 276-288, 2012 | 129 | 2012 |
| Challenges for teacher education: The mismatch between beliefs and practice in remote Indigenous contexts R Jorgensen, P Grootenboer, R Niesche, S Lerman Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education 38 (2), 161-175, 2010 | 124 | 2010 |
| Foucault, counter-conduct and school leadership as a form of political subjectivity R Niesche Journal of educational administration and history 45 (2), 144-158, 2013 | 90 | 2013 |
| Critical perspectives in educational leadership: A new ‘theory turn’? R Niesche, C Gowlett, R Niesche, C Gowlett Social, critical and political theories for educational leadership, 17-34, 2019 | 85 | 2019 |
| Governmentality and My School: School Principals in Societies of Control R Niesche Educational Philosophy and Theory 47 (2), 133-145, 2015 | 65 | 2015 |
| Advocating a post-structuralist politics for educational leadership R Niesche, C Gowlett New directions in educational leadership theory, 66-80, 2018 | 63 | 2018 |
| Foregrounding issues of equity and diversity in educational leadership R Niesche, A Keddie School Leadership and Management 31 (1), 65-77, 2011 | 63 | 2011 |
| Leadership, ethics and schooling for social justice R Niesche, A Keddie Routledge, 2015 | 62 | 2015 |
| Deconstructing educational leadership: Derrida and Lyotard R Niesche Routledge, 2013 | 62 | 2013 |
| School reform and the emotional demands of principals: Lorna's story M Mills, R Niesche School Leadership & Management 34 (2), 120-135, 2014 | 46 | 2014 |
| Social, critical and political theories for educational leadership R Niesche, C Gowlett Springer, 2019 | 44 | 2019 |
| Productive engagements with student difference: Supporting equity through cultural recognition A Keddie, R Niesche British Educational Research Journal 38 (2), 333-348, 2012 | 44 | 2012 |
| Discipline through documentation: A form of governmentality for school principals R Niesche International Journal of Leadership in Education 13 (3), 249-263, 2010 | 43 | 2010 |
| School autonomy, marketisation and social justice: The plight of principals and schools A Keddie, K Claire MacDonald, J Blackmore, S Eacott, B Gobby, ... Journal of Educational Administration and History 52 (4), 432-447, 2020 | 39 | 2020 |
| ‘It's almost like a White school now’: racialised complexities, Indigenous representation and school leadership A Keddie, R Niesche Critical Studies in Education 53 (2), 169-182, 2012 | 38 | 2012 |
| Freedom to what ends?—School autonomy in neoliberal times R Niesche, P Thomson The Wiley international handbook of educational leadership, 193-206, 2017 | 37 | 2017 |
| Curriculum reform in remote areas: The need for productive leadership R Niesche, R Jorgensen Journal of Educational Administration 48 (1), 102-117, 2010 | 34 | 2010 |
| Understanding educational leadership: Critical perspectives and approaches SJ Courtney, HM Gunter, R Niesche, T Trujillo Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021 | 32 | 2021 |
| Community empowerment? School autonomy, school boards and depoliticising governance B Gobby, R Niesche The Australian Educational Researcher 46, 565-582, 2019 | 27 | 2019 |
