Full Description
This up-to-date, candid examination of women's careers in education and leadership in education describes the pitfalls, triumphs, and future promise of female leaders in education.
Overall, education is a field still dominated by women, yet women do not typically pursue or attain leadership positions at the administrative level. Research has revealed some of the reasons for this: women still experience gender discrimination in education careers, experience higher attrition rates, and have slower career mobility than do men. Additionally, women in education are apparently less valued, and their performance is more critically evaluated, as in other fields. This insightful text shows the gender-based inequities and discrimination women face when aiming for leadership positions in education, and lays out a plan to bring success to this level of the field that is still male-dominated.
Women as Leaders in Education: Succeeding Despite Inequity, Discrimination, and Other Challenges is the result of a team of leading feminist educators and scholars. It delves into feminist women's leadership in education from kindergarten to graduate school. This two-volume work assesses the historical and current political landscape with regard to women hitting a "glass ceiling," issues of social justice, and the unique challenges women face in educational leadership as well as the new field of teacher leadership.
Contents
Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Toward a Conceptual Model of Feminist Leadership in American Education
Jennifer L. Martin
Chapter 2 From Rags to the Riches of Radcliffe: A Historical Study of Female Graduate Leaders from Poor and Working-class Backgrounds
Jennifer O'Connor
Chapter 3 Shirking the Maternal Shroud: A Call to Arms in Reinscribing Women Compositionists and Their Feminist Classrooms
Rachel Grimshaw
Chapter 4 Whose Social Justice Counts? Addressing Issues of Social Justice and Equity in Schools
Christa Boske
Chapter 5 Teacher Leaders Working for Social Justice: Contributing to the Field
Jennifer L. Martin
Chapter 6 Course Guides, Equity, and Achievement: The Shaping of Student Status
Lisa P. Hallen and Elizabeth J. Allan
Chapter 7 The Risks of Sex-Segregated Public Education for Girls, Boys, and Everyone
Susan S. Klein
Chapter 8 Understanding Gender-Based Leadership Learning Behaviors
Shannon R. Flumerfelt, Lindson Feun, and C. Robert Maxfield
Chapter 9 Women in Administration: Differences in Equity
Marjorie Ringler, Cheryl McFadden, and Valjeaner Ford
Chapter 10 Women Leaders as Superintendents: Stories of Courage and Character
Deb Clarke
Chapter 11 This I Believe: Teaching in Color
Carmen M. Johnson
Chapter 12 Both Sides of Mentoring: A Leader's Story
Lynn Kleiman Malinoff and James E. Barott
About the Editor and Contributors
Index
