Women Leading Education Across the Continents

Sharing the Spirit, Fanning the Flame
Herausgeber: Sobehart, Helen C.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book captures not only statistical data about the position of women in basic and higher education in over 17 countries, but relates compelling insights and stories about the challenges that women face in leadership, the limited access to education by young women, and some strategies for success that have fanned a flame to light the way for both women and men to follow toward equity and social justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: R&L Education
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 889g
• ISBN-13: 9781578869954
• ISBN-10: 1578869951
• Artikelnr.: 25438123

Autorenporträt

Helen C. Sobehart is president of Cardinal Stritch University, a former school superintendent, and a winner of the American Association of School Administrator's Dr. Effie H. Jones Humanitarian Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction - Fire, Ice, and the Journey
Part 3 Revolutionary Choices - The Brits, the Yanks, and Gender Identity
Itself
Chapter 4 Overview
Chapter 5 Women In Educational Leadership in England
Chapter 6 Conscious Leadership in a Political World
Chapter 7 Disappearing Gender
Part 8 Desert, Rainforest, and Growing Oasis - Traversing Challenge and
Opportunity in Africa
Chapter 9 Overview
Chapter 10 Status of Educational Leadership and Female Participation: The
Case of Tanzania
Chapter 11 Prospects and Challenges for Women Seeking Careers and
Professional Development in School Administration and Leadership in the
Ugandan Education System
Chapter 12 Women on the Rise: Women Navigating across Social, Political,
Economical, and Cultural Arenas to Claim Their Stake in Educational
Leadership Positions in South Africa
Part 13 A Modern/Ancient Paradox - Issues in China, New Zealand, Melanesia,
and Australia
Chapter 14 Overview
Chapter 15 The Repositioning of Women in Educational Leadership and
Changing the Social Relations Gender in Australia
Chapter 16 Women's Leadership in Educational Decentralization and Parental
Involvement: The Case of Hong Kong
Chapter 17 Chinese Women's Participation in Educational Leadership: A
Review and Analysis of the Current Situation
Chapter 18 Women and Educational Leadership in the South Pacific
Part 19 The Deep Influence of Culture and Personal Values - Greece,
Bangladesh, and Muslim Society
Chapter 20 Overview
Chapter 21 Leadership, Change, and Gender: Reflections of Greek and U.S.
Women Leaders
Chapter 22 Women and Educational Leadership in a Muslim Society
Chapter 23 Preparing Women for Educational Leadership: Opportunities in
Non-Formal Education in Bangladesh
Part 24 Must Society, Politics, and/or Education Itself Change? - Barriers
and Catalysts in Turkey and Germany
Chapter 25 Overview
Chapter 26 Gender Mainstreaming at German Universities: Successful
Strategies of Implementation
Chapter 27 Portraying Women Administrators: Turkish Cases
Chapter 28 Gender Mainstreaming: Women in Leadership and the "Physics of
Calamities"
Part 29 Voice, Place, and Face - Ways of Knowing in Brazil, Hispanic and
Mixed Cultures, and the Caribbean Islands
Chapter 30 Overview
Chapter 31 Women in Educational Leadership: The Relationship between
Contextual Factors and Women's Careers in Educational Leadership
Chapter 32 Communicative Actions - The Brazilian Women in Educational
Leadership
Chapter 33 A Photographic Journey of Discovery: Women and Children Living
in Dominica, West Indies
Chapter 34 Energy, Spirit, and Light: The Journey's End and Beginning