Women Leading Education Across the Continents

Sharing the Spirit, Fanning the Flame
Herausgeber: Sobehart, Helen C.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book captures not only statistical data about the position of women in basic and higher education in over 17 countries, but relates compelling insights and stories about the challenges that women face in leadership, the limited access to education by young women, and some strategies for success that have fanned a flame to light the way for both women and men to follow toward equity and social justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 889g
• ISBN-13: 9781578869954
• ISBN-10: 1578869951
• Artikelnr.: 25438123

Autorenporträt

Edited by Helen C. Sobehart - Foreword by Charles Dougherty - Contributions by Anastasia Athnasoula-Reppa; Sister Hellen Bandiho; Dorothy Bassett; Quirin Bauer; Bettie Bertram; Jill Blackmore; JoAnne Burley; Marianne Coleman; Mustafa Celikten; Joyce Dana;

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction - Fire, Ice, and the Journey Part
3 Revolutionary Choices - The Brits, the Yanks, and Gender Identity Itself
Chapter 4 Overview Chapter 5 Women In Educational Leadership in England
Chapter 6 Conscious Leadership in a Political World Chapter 7 Disappearing
Gender Part 8 Desert, Rainforest, and Growing Oasis - Traversing Challenge
and Opportunity in Africa Chapter 9 Overview Chapter 10 Status of
Educational Leadership and Female Participation: The Case of Tanzania
Chapter 11 Prospects and Challenges for Women Seeking Careers and
Professional Development in School Administration and Leadership in the
Ugandan Education System Chapter 12 Women on the Rise: Women Navigating
across Social, Political, Economical, and Cultural Arenas to Claim Their
Stake in Educational Leadership Positions in South Africa Part 13 A
Modern/Ancient Paradox - Issues in China, New Zealand, Melanesia, and
Australia Chapter 14 Overview Chapter 15 The Repositioning of Women in
Educational Leadership and Changing the Social Relations Gender in
Australia Chapter 16 Women's Leadership in Educational Decentralization and
Parental Involvement: The Case of Hong Kong Chapter 17 Chinese Women's
Participation in Educational Leadership: A Review and Analysis of the
Current Situation Chapter 18 Women and Educational Leadership in the South
Pacific Part 19 The Deep Influence of Culture and Personal Values - Greece,
Bangladesh, and Muslim Society Chapter 20 Overview Chapter 21 Leadership,
Change, and Gender: Reflections of Greek and U.S. Women Leaders Chapter 22
Women and Educational Leadership in a Muslim Society Chapter 23 Preparing
Women for Educational Leadership: Opportunities in Non-Formal Education in
Bangladesh Part 24 Must Society, Politics, and/or Education Itself Change?
- Barriers and Catalysts in Turkey and Germany Chapter 25 Overview Chapter
26 Gender Mainstreaming at German Universities: Successful Strategies of
Implementation Chapter 27 Portraying Women Administrators: Turkish Cases
Chapter 28 Gender Mainstreaming: Women in Leadership and the "Physics of
Calamities" Part 29 Voice, Place, and Face - Ways of Knowing in Brazil,
Hispanic and Mixed Cultures, and the Caribbean Islands Chapter 30 Overview
Chapter 31 Women in Educational Leadership: The Relationship between
Contextual Factors and Women's Careers in Educational Leadership Chapter 32
Communicative Actions - The Brazilian Women in Educational Leadership
Chapter 33 A Photographic Journey of Discovery: Women and Children Living
in Dominica, West Indies Chapter 34 Energy, Spirit, and Light: The
Journey's End and Beginning