Women Leading Education across the Continents

Overcoming the Barriers
Herausgeber: Bauer, Quirin J.; Reilly, Elizabeth C.

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Produktbeschreibung

Women Leading Education across the Continents is a collection of research about and stories of women in basic and higher education leadership from every region of the globe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 842g
• ISBN-13: 9781475802245
• ISBN-10: 1475802242
• Artikelnr.: 42058113

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth C. Reilly is internationally recognized for her research with women in educational leadership. She serves as Professor of Educational Leadership and Administration at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, USA. Quirin J. Bauer is Deputy Head of the Student Counseling Centre and Equal Opportunity Commissioner at the University of Augsburg in Germany. He also serves as Deputy Directorate on the Advisory Board of the Bavarian Equal Opportunity Commissioners.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Becoming the Beacon Helen Sobehart, United States Acknowledgments
Elizabeth C. Reilly and Quirin J. Bauer Prologue: I'm Not Going to Take
This Sitting Down: The Use and Misuse of Feminist Standpoint Theory in
Women's Educational Leadership Research Charol Shakeshaft, United States
Section 1: Gender Status and Educational Leadership Section 1 Editor -
Rachel McNae 1.Section I Overview: Gender Status and Educational Leadership
Jacqueline Oram-Sterling 2.The American School Superintendent: Women and
the Superintendency Noelle M. Ellerson, United States 3.The Gender Gap in
Academia: The Case of Cyprus Maria Eliophotou Menon, Deana
Charalambidou-Solomi, and Mary Koutselini, Cyprus 4.'Breadwinners' and
'Homemakers': How Constructions of Masculinities affect Women's Progression
in Leadership Pontso Moorosi, United Kingdom 5.An Investigation of Gender
Differences in Teachers' Communications Apostolia Beka, Greece 6.Where are
All the Women Superintendents?: A Case Study of Pennsylvania, USA, Jill
Sperandio, USA Section 2: Challenges and Barriers for Women Leaders Section
2 Editor Anjale Welton 7.Section 2 Overview: The equal opportunity policy
functions - with which strategies, under which circumstances and in which
period of time? Susanne Gruber 8.Leadership Perspectives from a New
Generation of Women Leaders: Balancing Acts Continue Whitney Sherman
Newcomb and Margaret Grogan, United States 9.Why Do Women Leave the
Superintendency? Kerry Robinson, United States 10.Transforming the Field?
Scholarship of Women in Educational Administration Rhonda Mcclellan, Dana
Christman, and Adrienne E. Hyle, United States 11.Barriers to Leadership
and Challenges faced by female Heads in Educational Institutions in Uganda
Alice Kagoda, Uganda 12.What Kind of Times Are These?: The Mystery of
Sexual Harassment in the Post-Liberal Feminism Era Catherine Marshall,
Brooke Midkiff, Stephanie Galloway, and Keren Dalyot, United States Section
3: Confronting the Barriers Section 3 Editor Kerry Robinson 13.Section 3
Overview: Confronting the Barriers of Women Leaders around the World
1.Esther Sui-Chu Ho, China 14.Empowering Female Faculty in Ghana's Public
Universities: Mentoring - a Door Opener in the University of Education,
Winneba and University of Cape Coast, Ghana 14.Joyce Wilson-Tagoe, Ghana
15.Organizational Development by Fostering Young Academic Talents with
Gender Mainstreaming 14.Quirin J. Bauer, Germany 16.Female Graduate
Students (Re)Define Mentoring in Educational Leadership: Results from a
Survey 14.Anjalé Welton, Katherine Cumings Mansfield, and Pei-Ling Lee,
United States 17.Talking About Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class
During Training of Public Teachers in São Paulo, Brazil 14.Rosangela
Malachias, Brazil Section 4: Leading in Challenging Contexts Section 4
Editor Diane Reed 18.Section 4 Overview: Leading in Challenging Contexts
Linda Lambert 19.Women of K-12 and Higher Educational Leadership in
Afghanistan: A Comparison of Progress Elizabeth C. Reilly, United States
20.The Role of Women Leaders in a World of Terrorism and Natural Disasters
Abida Mahmood, Pakistan 21.Women Leading Schools in Challenging Contexts
Jane Rarieya, Tanzania 22.One sister's story of school leadership in the
Philippines Michelle Colay, Philippines Section 5: Deconstructing the
Discourse on Gendered Leadership Section 5 Editor Katherine Cumings
Mansfield 23.Section 5 Overview: Deconstructing the Discourse on Gendered
Leadership Jane Rarieya 24.Theorizing Women Leaders' Experience: Caught in
the Web Jacky Lumby, United Kingdom 25.Where Does the Power Lie? Gender,
Leadership, and Positional Power Saeeda Shah, United Kingdom 26.Applying
the Leader Resilience Profile® to Compare and Contrast Leader Resilience by
Gender Diane Reed, Bruce Blaine, Jerry L. Patterson, United States
27.Learning Gendered Leadership: A Discursive Struggle Kay Fuller, United
Kingdom Epilogue Elizabeth C. Reilly & Quirin J. Bauer About the Editors
About the Section Editors About the Contributors Index