1st Edition
Gender Matters in Educational Administration and Policy A Feminist Introduction
Preface. A Telling Tale From the Field Hester Eisenstein. Introductory Comments Jill Blackmore and Jane Kenway Part 1: ‘Rereading Educational History" 1. The Gender Dynamics of Organizations: A Historical Account Kerreen Reiger 2. ‘In the Shadow of Men’: The Historical Construction of Administration as a ‘Masculinist’ Enterprise Jill Blackmore 3. ‘Setting the Child Free’: Teachers, Mothers and Child-centred Pedagogy in the 1930s Kindergarten Deborah Tyler Part 2: Contemporary Issues 4. Improving Girls’ Educational Outcomes Joanna Wyn and Bruce Wilson 5. Non-traditional Pathways: Are They the Way to the Future? Jane Kenway 6. Truths About Assessment and the Learning of Girls: From Gender Difference to the Production of Gendered Attainment Helen Bannister 7. Ethical Practice in an Unjust World: Educational Evaluation and Social Justice Gaby Weiner 8. Equal Opportunity, Integration and Parental Participation: A Gender-critical Case Study of Educational Policy Implementation between Two Schools Terry Evans Part 3: Political and Administrative Theory: Some Feminist Challenges 9. Contemporary Issues for Feminism: The Politics of the State Anna Yeatman 10. Privatizing Public Schooling: Its Causes and Consequences Barbara Preston 11. Equal Employment Opportunity and Corporate Planning Clare Burton 12. Educational Leadership as Emancipatory Praxis Shirley Grundy Part 4: Feminist Praxis 13. The Theory-Practice Relationship in Schooling, Academia and Feminist Theory Lyn Yates
Biography
Jill Blackmore, Jane Kenway
