Reimagining Educational Leadership through Fei Xiaotong’s “Chaxu Geju”: A Global South Epistemology of Relational Governance
This article explores Fei Xiaotong’s (1992) concept of chaxu geju (差序格局), the differential mode of association, as a distinctive epistemological foundation for educational administration and leadership in the Global South. Rather than positioning chaxu geju as a simple alternative to a homogenized “Wester...