Overview
- This book examines women in leadership situations (particularly secondary and tertiary education contexts) by understanding how women have gone about creating positive differences in educational environments
- Rather than a demographic or statistical view of women in educational contexts, this book explores the experiences of women doing leadership work
- Based on research, this book releases the voices of women in leadership
Part of the book series: Higher Education Horizons (HEHO)
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The research strategy underpinning the book was to listen to the voices and stories of 28 women occupying senior roles in education. Half of these women were principals of independent Victorian secondary schools and the other half were in professorial and senior leadership roles in Victorian universities. Through this listening and pondering on their experiences the authors came to recognise that these women of influence were working in contested spaces and facing multiple practice dilemmas. Readers are invited to explore these spaces and dilemmas, considering the learnings from the women whose lives, views and experiences are represented here."
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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The Conversation Space
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Conversation Highlights
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Costs and Survival Strategies
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women of Influence in Education
Book Subtitle: Practising Dilemmas and Contesting Spaces
Editors: Nita Cherry, Joy Higgs
Series Title: Higher Education Horizons
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-815-0
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-815-0Published: 28 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 188
Topics: Education, general