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Performing and Reforming Leaders: Gender, Educational Restructuring, and Organizational Change

By Jill Blackmore , Judyth Sachs

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0791470318, 9780791470312, 9781429471428
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2301437 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in Women in Education
Pages
306\325
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Performing and Reforming Leaders critically analyzes how women negotiate the dilemmas they face in leadership and managerial roles in Australian schools, universities, and continuing education. To meet the economic needs of the post-welfare nation state of the past decade, Australian education systems were restructured, and this restructuring coincided with many female teachers and academics moving into middle management as change agents. The authors examine how new managerialism and markets in education transformed how academics and teachers did their work, and in turn changed the nature of educational leadership in ways that were dissonant with the leadership practices and values women brought to the job. While largely focused on Australia, Performing and Reforming Leaders strongly resonates with the experiences of leaders in the United States and other nations that have undergone similar educational reforms in recent decades.

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