Performing and Reforming Leaders
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Performing and Reforming Leaders

Gender, Educational Restructuring, and Organizational Change

  1. 324 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Performing and Reforming Leaders

Gender, Educational Restructuring, and Organizational Change

About this book

Explores the issues inherent in critical and postmodern feminism in educational leadership.

Winner of the 2007 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association

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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Table of contents

  1. PERFORMING AND REFORMING LEADERS
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Abbreviations
  5. INTRODUCTION “Living at the Crossroads”
  6. 1. Risky Times for Women Leaders
  7. 2. Restructuring Education
  8. 3. Gender Restructuring:Toxic, Volatile, and Greedy Organizations
  9. 4. “Lived Contradictions”:Gender, Professionalism,and the Crisis of Trust
  10. 5. Giving an Account:Performing Educational Work and Working to Perform
  11. 6. Accidental Leaders Acting Out and Acting Up
  12. 7. Managing the Self:The Consuming Passions of Performing and Re-forming Leadership
  13. 8. Caught between Acts:Middle Managers Mediating Change Up and Down
  14. 9. The Managerial Dilemma:Counterintuitive Impulses of Performativity and Passion
  15. 10. Progression and Regression:Managing Diversity, Equity,and Equal Opportunity
  16. 11. Conclusion:Separation, Transition,and Incorporation?
  17. Notes
  18. References
  19. About the Authors
  20. Index