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An eclectic volume that documents how women lead in education and points toward a feminist agenda of women in education in the next decade. The chapters are written by academics, who are often educational leaders, and by practitioners from their own experiences or through a study of women leaders. The chapters reflect various methods of study, including case examples, personal stories, qualitative and quantitative reports, assessments of existing practice, and attempts to devise theory on women leading. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• I Preparing Women for Leadership: Conditions and Critiques
• 1 Reexamining Educational Leadership: Challenging Assumptions
• 2 Ten Years Later: Too Little, Too Late?
• 3 The Head Teacher as Career Broker: Stories from An English Primary School
• 4 "Is That Sociology?": The Accounts of Women of Color Graduate Students in Ph.D. Programs
• 5 Gender Awareness and Contradictions in The Education of Early Childhood Teachers
• II Socialization of Women into Educational Leadership: Conditions and Critiques
• 6 Women Ascending to Leadership: The Organizational Socialization of Principals
• 7 Learning Leadership through Mentorships
• 8 The Mom and Pop Model of School Administration: A Case Study
• 9 Suit-able for Promotion: A Game of Educational Snakes and Ladders
• 10 The Bureaucratic Restraints to Caring in Schools
• III Women Leading: Assimilation, Acceptance and Resistance
• 11 Advocacy Organizations for Women School Administrators, 1977-1993
• 12 The Trouble with Change: A Conversation between Colleagues
• 13 Administrative Women and Their Writing: Reproduction and Resistance in Bureaucracies
• 14 Women in Educational Administration: Views of Equity
• 15 Women Principals' Views on Sex Equity: Exploring Issues of Integration and Information
• 16 "If I Weren't Involved in Schools, I Might Be Radical": Gender Consciousness in Context
• 17 The Class Ceiling Reconsidered: Views from Below
• Part IV Shaping Alternative Visions of Leadership: An Agenda for a New Century
• 18 To Walk The Red Road as School Leaders
• 19 Women's Working Worlds: A Case Study of A Female Organization
• 20 Leadership from The Classroom: Women Teachers as A Key to School Reform
• 21 Women Principals--Leading with Power
• 22 In the Image of The Double Helix: A Reconstruction of Schooling
• 23 Women Leading: An Agenda for A New Century
• List of Contributors
• Index

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CHOICE Review

This compilation of independent projects explores leadership styles and leadership patterns of women in education--primarily women teaching in K-12. Although the majority of public school teachers are female, women are underrepresented in administrative positions. There is little reliable data identifying the number of women administrators at the various levels. The authors examine conditions that are conducive to the entry of women into administrative positions and the elements that hinder women from making positive movement in school administration. Leadership, socialization of the genders, policy, management, and politics are investigated. The book was conceived in 1989 at the annual convention of the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group on Research on Women in Education. It was written by women educators who believe that there will be continuing reform by and through women in education. Traditional theories of leadership and their influence in educational settings are noted, and numerous case studies demonstrating the effectiveness of mentoring, changing roles, cooperation, and collaboration are explored. Upper-division undergraduate through faculty; professional. B. O. Pressley; California State University, Hayward

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Diane M. Dunlap is Dean of the Graduate School at Hamline University. Patricia A. Schmuck is Director of the Educational Administration Program at Lewis & Clark College. She is editor of Women Educators: Employees of Schools in Western Countries also published by SUNY Press.