| Description |
xiii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Overview for Part I / Dorothy Bassett -- Women in educational leadership in England / Marianne Coleman -- Conscious leadership in a political world / Margaret Grogan and Charol Shakeshaft -- Disappearing gender: choices in identity / Jacky Lumby -- Overview for Part II / JoAnne E. Burley and Pamela Lenz -- Status of educational leadership and female participation: the case of Tanzania / Sister Hellen A. Bandiho -- Ugandan women: moving beyond historical and cultural understandings of educational leadership / Alice Merab Kagoda and Jill Sperandio -- Women on the rise: women navigating across social, political, economic and cultural arenas to claim their stake in educational leadership positions in South Africa / Thidziambi Phendla -- Overview for Part III / Joyce A. Dana -- Re/positioning women in educational leadership: the changing social relations and politics of gender in Australia / Jill Blackmore -- Women's leadership in educational decentralization and parental involvement: the case of Hong Kong / Esther Sui-chu Ho -- Chinese women's participation in educational leadership: a review and analysis of the current situation / Haiyan Qiang, Juan Han and Xiaoyan Niu -- Women and educational leadership in New Zealand and Melanesia / Jane Strachan -- Overview for Part IV / Eileen Zungolo -- Leadership, change and gender: reflections of Greek and U.S. women leaders / Linda L. Lyman, Anastasia Athnasoula-Reppa and Angeliki Lazaridou -- Women and educational leadership in a Muslim society: a study of women college heads in Pakistan / Saeeda Shah -- Preparing women for educational leadership: opportunities in nonformal education in Bangladesh / Jill Sperandio -- Overview for Part V / Marilyn L. Grady and Bettie Bertram -- Gender mainstreaming at German universities: successful strategies of implementation / Quirin Johannes Bauer and Susanne Gruber -- Portraying women administrators: Turkish cases / Mustafa Celikten -- Gender mainstreaming: women in leadership and "the physics of calamities" / Hildegard Macha and Stephanie Handschuh-Heiss -- Overview for Part Vi / Sharon Adams-Taylor and Claudia Fahrenwald -- Women in educational leadership: the relationship between contextual factors and women's careers in educational leadership / Maria Luisa González and Flora Ida Ortiz -- Communicative actions: Brazilian women in educational leadership / Rosangela Malachias -- A photographic journey of discovery: women and children living in Dominica, West indies / Katherine M. Houghton -- Epilogue: energy, spirit and light: the journey's end and beginning / Helen C. Sobehart |
| Notes |
"A compendium of research and practice in both higher and basic education across the globe, first presented in Rome, July 2007, at a conference co-sponsored by the University Council for Educational Administration, Duquesne University, and the American Association of School Administrators." |
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"Published in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Educational leadership -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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Women in higher education -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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Women school administrators -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Sobehart, Helen C., 1948-
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American Association of School Administrators.
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Duquesne University.
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University Council for Educational Administration.
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| LC no. |
2008043716 |
| ISBN |
9781578869954 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781578869961 (paperback) |
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