Women and School Leadership: International Perspectives

184 Pages·2002·27.106 MB·English

by  Cecilia Reynolds

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Women and School Leadership
SUNY
SERIES lN
WOMEN JN EDUCATION
Margaret Grogan, editor
WOMEN AND
SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
International Perspectives
Edited by
CECILIA REYNOLDS
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Women and school leadership : inccrnational perspectives / edited by Cecilia Reynolds.
p. cm. - (SUNY series in women in edueacion)
Includes b1bliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7914-53 l 1-1 (alk. paper) - ISDN 0-7914-5312-X (pbk. : alk. paper)
I. Women school adnuniitrators-Cros~-cultural studies. 2. ,vomen college
adm.inistrarors-Cross-culrural studies. 3. Educational leadership--Cross-cultur~I swdies.
I. Reynolds, Cecilia, 1947- fl. Series.
LB2831.8 .W64 2002
378. I 'l I '(l82- dc2l
2001044660
JO 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
CONTENTS
Acknowledgn1en ts vu
Introduction
NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT WOMEN AND SCHOOL LEADERSHrP
Cecilia Reynolds 1
PART I
DEFINING SHIFTING CONTEXTS: ENTREPRENEURSHIP,
CHANGING LEADERSHIP SCRIPTS, AND THE NEW MANAGERIALISM 9
Chapter One
REINTERPRETING ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN EDUCATION:
A
GENDER PERSPECTIVE
Valerie HaJJ (United Kingdom) 13
Chapter Two
CHANGING GENDER SCRIPTS AND MORAL DILEMMAS
FOR WOMEN AND M EN IN EDUCATION, 1940-1970
Cecilia Reynolds (Canada) 29
Chapter Three
THE
TROUBLING WOMEN: UPSIDES AND DOWNSIDES
OF LEADERSrilP AND THE NEW MANACERIALISM
Jill
Blackmore (Australia) 49
WOMEN AND SCHOOL LEADEf,tSHIP
V1
WOMEN AND SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
V1
PART II
Ex:rLOlUNG BEHlND THE STATISTICS:
WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES AT THE EDGE OF CHANGE 71
Chapter Four
THE "ALBERTA ADVANTAGE":
"DEKiElNING" CAREER PROSPECTS FOR WOMEN EDUCATORS
Beth Young (Canada) 75
Chapter Five
WOMEN ADMINISTRATORS AND THE P OTNT OF ExrT:
COLLISlON BETWEEN THE PERSON AND THE fNSTITUTION
Patricia Schmuck, Sandra Hollingsworth,
and Robyn Lock (United States) 93
Chapter Six
f
EMINIST EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP:
NOT FOR THE FAINTHEARTED
Jane Strachan (New Zealand) 111
PART III
QUESTIONING THE F UTURE:
fEMI.NlSM, LEADERSHIP, AND CROSSING BORDERS 127
Chapter Seven
Is
TI-IBRE A FunmE FOR FEMINISM IN THE
CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSJTY?
Jane Kenway and Dianna Langmead (Australia) 129
Chapter Eight
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS ABOUT
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND CROSSING B ORDE.RS
Deborah Mindorff and Cecilia Reynolds (Canada) 147
About the Contributors 157
Further Reading 161
Index 163