Women interrupting, disrupting, and revolutionizing educational policy and practice

• Other Authors: Newcomb, Whitney Sherman (Editor), Mansfield, Katherine Cumings (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2014]
• Series: Educational leadership for social justice.
• Subjects: Women in education.; Feminism and education.; Leadership in women.; Educational leadership.; Women > Education (Higher); Education > Inclusive Education.; Educational strategies and policy: inclusion.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806612451
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-62396-705-5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 329 pages)

The idea for this book was born from discussions at several recent academic events including the Women Leading Education (WLE) International Conference in Volos, Greece (2012) and the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2011) as well as fr...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Where have we been? Where are we going? / Charol Shakeshaft
• Chapter 1. Prologue: Applying torque to the flywheel / Whitney Sherman Newcomb and Katherine Cumings Mansfield
• Part I. Looking back to understand the present
• Chapter 2. Re(considering) gender scholarship in educational leadership / Margaret Grogan
• Chapter 3. The stalled gender revolution: Implications for women leaders / Mary Hermann
• Chapter 4. Passion, pedagogies, and politics: Feminists in academe / Miriam E. David
• Part II. Understanding and strengthening students' lived experiences
• Chapter 5. More than a school: Providing a safe space for girls to rewrite, direct, and act their life stories / Katherine Cumings Mansfield
• Chapter 6. Building a youth leadership fortress: High school women of color as visible activists / Anjalé Welton, Brooke Brock, and Mercedes Perry
• Chapter 7. African American female students at historically black colleges and universities: Historical and contemporary considerations / Marybeth Gasman
• Chapter 8. Reforming school reform: The need for addressing gender and sexuality issues in teacher preparation programs / Cathy A. R. Brant
• Part III. Understanding and strengthening leaders' lived experiences
• Chapter 9. I'm either nice or i'm a bitch: Gender entrapment and black female principals / Noelle Witherspoon
• Chapter 10. African American women educational leaders in turnaround schools: Narratives on transforming urban school communities / Cosette M. Grant
• Chapter 11. Interrupting no more: Why women leave the position of superintendent / Kerry K. Robinson
• Chapter 12. Collaborative feminism at work: Networking for success / Whitney Sherman Newcomb
• Part IV. Pressing forward to change the future
• Chapter 13. Using the senses in reflective practice to prepare women for transforming their learning spaces / Christa Boske
• Chapter 14. Using feminist perspectives to interrupt and disrupt gender neutrality and revolutionize organizational and policy studies / Katherine Cumings Mansfield, Anjalé D. Welton, and Margaret Grogan
• Chapter 15. Activism and community engagement to promote girls and women: To have voice and choice / Rachel McNae
• Chapter 16. The pensive athena: Lessons on leadership, career, and leveraging change / Autumn Tooms Cyprès
• Chapter 17. Epilogue: Well-behaved women seldom make history / Katherine Cumings Mansfield and Whitney Sherman Newcomb
• About the contributors.