Leadership Gender and Culture in Education : Male and Female Perspectives

Reynolds, Cecilia, Collard, John

ISBN 10: 0335214401 / ISBN 13: 9780335214402

Edité par McGraw-Hill Education, 2004

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Leadership Gender and Culture in Education : Male and Female Perspectives
• Éditeur: McGraw-Hill Education
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0335214401
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780335214402
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• Poids: 0,833 livre

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Synopsis

"This rich explorative book examines the intricacies of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and class and how these complex influences weave their patterns in the daily lives of leaders. It achieves the difficult balance between acknowledging differences as well as unifying elements. The book also raises many questions about the context for leadership and examines the central issues of: leadership for what? What are leaders there to do - and for whom? To ensure that students achieve higher examination scores, or to promote equity and social justice? This book offers many fresh insights into these and other important questions."
Professor Kathryn Riley, Institute of Education, University of London

This book features chapters by leading international scholars on gender and educational leadership. Drawing on research in schools in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, the United States and Canada, it introduces new discussions about the impact of gender, race, class, institutional setting and recent ideologies on leadership discourses.

The book shows how early research has over-emphasized gender stereotypes and tended to simplify and polarize the ways men and women lead.Looking at differences and similarities in how men and women take on and exercise leadership roles, the authors counter essentialist claims based on biological, psychological and sociological theories that stress gender difference. The discussions employ sophisticated understandings of gender relations and leadership discourses in today’s globalized context.

The book is for students and scholars studying leadership and for leaders in different educational contexts around the world.

À propos de l?auteur

John Collard is the Head of Graduate Programs in the School of Education and Community Studies, University of Canberra, Australia. He has worked as a consultant to state and national governments in Australia. Prior to entering higher education he was a teacher of English and principal of a large multicultural secondary school.

Cecilia Reynolds is Professor and Dean of the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and former Associate Dean at OISE, University of Toronto. Her recent publications include Women and School Leadership: International Perspectives (2002) and Equity and Globalization in Education (2002).

Contributors: Sandra Acker, Marie Battiste, Jill Blackmore, Cryss Brunner, Marian Court, Anna Davies, Karin Franzen, Margaret Grogan, Olof Johansson, James Koschoreck, Betty Merchant