Destined to Rule the Schools

Destined to Rule the Schools
Title Destined to Rule the Schools PDF eBook
Author Jackie M. Blount
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 268
Release 1998-03-19
Genre Education
ISBN 9780791496916

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Winner of the 1998 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Titles In 1909, when she became the superintendent of the Chicago schools, Ella Flagg Young proclaimed that women were "destined to rule the schools of every city." After all, women accounted for nearly eighty percent of all teachers by 1910 and their ascendance into formal school leadership positions could not be far behind. After World War II, however, a backlash against single women educators and a rigid realignment of gender roles in schools contributed to a rapid decline of women school administrators across the country, a decline from which there has been little recovery to the present. Destined to Rule the Schools tells the story of women and school leadership in America from the common school era to the present. In a broad sense, it offers an historical account of how teaching became women's work and the school superintendency men's. Blount explores how power in school employment has been structured unequally by gender. It focuses on the superintendency because an important component of the effort to establish control of schools has occurred in contesting the definition of this position. Unique and important contributions of this volume include: the only published comprehensive statistical study describing the number of women superintendents throughout the twentieth century, an analysis suggesting that the superintendency may have become an appointive position in part to remove it from the influence of newly enfranchised women voters, a discussion of the role of homophobia in creating and perpetuating rigid gender divisions in school employment, and a broad analysis that integrates the histories of teaching and school administration.

Fit to Teach

Fit to Teach
Title Fit to Teach PDF eBook
Author Jackie M. Blount
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 244
Release 2006-07-03
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780791462683

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Examines the construction of gender in public school employment.

Radicalizing Educational Leadership

Radicalizing Educational Leadership
Title Radicalizing Educational Leadership PDF eBook
Author Ira Bogotch
Publisher BRILL
Pages 191
Release 2008-01-01
Genre Education
ISBN 9087904169

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"What you will find inside this provocative text: It should come as no surprise, as the collection of papers in this book show that we are up against it. Killing those we despise has become normative in the political minds of both the powerful and the marginalised. Framing those who are weakest as the architects of their own disgusting state ... it has become commonsense in all societies, rich and poor.... Any counter-hegemonic project that seeks to rethink social justice and reframe educational leadership is, without question, confronting the enormous power of ordinariness, the commonsense about power, inequality and violence." Jonathan Jansen

Principles of Power

Principles of Power
Title Principles of Power PDF eBook
Author C. Cryss Brunner
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 223
Release 2012-02-01
Genre Education
ISBN 0791492664

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Women who seek to be school superintendents or who want to improve their chances for success in the superintendency can clearly benefit from the insights and cultural wisdom of women who have attained the position. Principles of Power shares perspectives from twelve successful women superintendents and puts them in a cultural context that highlights what they can teach us about their methods for success. To illustrate the underlying behaviors that helped them succeed, Brunner uses as a framework the system of beliefs gathered by Carlos Castaneda from Yaqui Indian warrior training. Castaneda calls this system the "riddle of the heart." To understand the riddle of the heart, women must be able to simultaneously comprehend and use two different perceptions of the world: that which is and that which is becoming. To be able to solve the riddle, warriors develop mind set and a discipline that allow them to get the best out of any conceivable situation. This book is the story of these warriors¬—twelve women superintendents—and how they have solved the riddle of the heart.

Keeping the Promise

Keeping the Promise
Title Keeping the Promise PDF eBook
Author Dennis Carlson
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 442
Release 2007
Genre Education
ISBN 9780820481999

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Women and School Leadership

Women and School Leadership
Title Women and School Leadership PDF eBook
Author Cecilia Reynolds
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 175
Release 2012-02-01
Genre Education
ISBN 0791488918

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This international collection of work by leading feminist scholars in educational administration from five Western liberal democratic countries presents "state-of-the-art" research on women in school leadership positions. The contributors focus on the need for critical reflections, which reveal hidden aspects of leadership phenomena, and advocate diverse forms of positive action to improve the condition for women in school settings. As such, this collection challenges the reader to consider the partiality of all perspectives on leadership, as well as future directions for research and practice. It also brings together views of schools and school systems at the macro level, with discussions and case studies focused on the micro levels of school life.

Founding Mothers and Others

Founding Mothers and Others
Title Founding Mothers and Others PDF eBook
Author A. Sadovnik
Publisher Springer
Pages 278
Release 2016-04-30
Genre Education
ISBN 1137054751

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Interest in progressive education and feminist pedagogy has gained a significant following in current educational reform circles. Founding Mothers and Others examines the female founders of progressive schools and other female educational leaders in the early twentieth century and their schools or educational movements. All of the women led remarkable lives and their legacies are embedded in education today. The book examines the lessons to be learned from their work and their lives. The book also analyzes whether their leadership styles support contemporary feminist theories of leadership that argue women administrators tend to be more inclusive, democratic, and caring than male administrators. Through an examination of these women, this book looks critically at the ways in which the leaders' administrative styles and behaviors lend support to feminist claims.