Troubling women : feminism, leadership, and educational change
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Troubling women : feminism, leadership, and educational change
（Feminist educational thinking series）
Open University Press, 1999
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-236) and index
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: pbk ISBN 9780335194797
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Feminism as a social movement has historically been a force for educational change. However, in this book Jill Blackmore argues that the particular approaches taken by feminist theory towards educational leadership now require reviewing in the light of the radical restructuring of educational systems. This is because new forms of managerialism, while seemingly sympathetic to so called 'female styles of leadership', have produced a value shift which is troubling for many (but not all) women in leadership. The book provides an historical overview of educational management and the 'masculinist' models embedded in leadership and organizational processes, an analysis of equal opportunities policies and their different strategic approaches and effects, presents new research on how educational restructuring has produced specific dilemmas for women in educational leadership and finally offers a series of issues and principles which are premised upon centralised decentralisation and market liberalism. While situated in Australia the book will be of interest to both educational practitioners and policymakers as well as postgraduate students and academics in the field of administration, management and policy in all education systems.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Troubling women
new leaders for new hard times?
Part one: Disciplinary technologies
The gendering of educational work
Power/knowledge at work in educational administration
Gendered lives
becoming educators, feminists and leaders
Part two: Disruptive voices
Gender equity policy
where to go from here?
Working in a system not of your own making
Fixing the feminist gaze upon masculinity
Part three: Risky business
Doing emotional management work
gender, markets and self managing schools
Embodied authority
the disciplined but disruptive powerful woman
Dealing with difference
Conclusion: A feminist postmasculinist politics of educational leadership
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: hard ISBN 9780335194803
Description
Jill Blackmore here argues that the particular approaches previously taken by feminist theory towards educational leadership require reviewing in the light of the radical restructuring of educational systems seen in the late-1990s. She asserts that new forms of managerialism, while seemingly sympathetic to so called "female styles of leadership", have produced a value shift which is troubling for many (but not all) women in leadership. The text provides an historical overview of educational management and the "masculinist" models embedded in leadership and organizational processes; an analysis of equal opportunities policies and their different strategic approaches; presents research on how educational restructuring has produced specific dilemmas for women in educational leadership; and finally offers a series of issues and principles which are premised upon centralized and market liberalism.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: troubling women - new leaders for hard times? Part 1 Disciplinary technologies: the gendering of educational work
- power/knowledge at work in educational administration
- gendered lives - becoming educators, feminists and leaders. Part 2 Disruptive voices: gender equity policy - where to go from here?
- working in a system not of your own making
- fixing the feminist gaze upon masculinity. Part 3 Risky business: doing emotional management work - gender, markets and self managing schools
- embodied authority - the disciplined but disruptive powerful woman
- dealing with difference. Part 4 Conclusion: a feminist postmasculinist politics of educational leadership.
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