About

This is the second yearbook of the Australian Council for Educational Administration. It argues that more gender representative management is necessary to improving educational effectiveness and that feminist insights on management can make a significant contribution to the improvement of educational systems and schools. Despite EEO legislation, women remain heavily under-represented at senior levels in educational systems and schools. Gender and Changing Educational Management addresses the reasons for this inequity and what can be done about it. Drawing upon the work of leading international and Australian scholars, and stressing the interplay of theory, practice and personal experience, its approach to feminism is eclectic, ranging across the political and theoretical spectrum. This is a work of interest to all those involved in reforming educational administration.

Proudly published by Hodder Education

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Contributions

CONTENTS

• Thinking Gender, Changing Educational Management: An Introduction
  BOB LINGARD AND BRIGID LIMERICK

SECTION ONE : Gender and Educational Management

• Two Gendered Leadership Styles in Educational Organisations
  CAROL SHAKESHAFT
• A Question of Style or Value?: Contrasting Perceptions of Women as Educational Leaders
  GABY WEINER
• Women in Educational Management: Theory and Practice
  JENNY OZGA AND LYNNE WALKER
• Breaking out from a Masculinist Politics of Education
  JILL BLACKMORE
• Issues in Changing the Gendered Culture of Educational Organisations
  MADDY McMASTER AND SHIRLEY RANDELL

SECTION TWO : Gender, Management and Careers

• Accommodated Careers: Gendered Career Paths in Education
  BRIGID LIMERICK
• Gender Filters in the Deputy Principalship
  CATHERINE MARSHALL AND EDITH RUSCH
• To Fields of Tall Poppies: The Mentored Pathway
  LEONIE DAWS
• Women in Management: Glass Ceilings or Slippery Poles?
  LEONIE STILL
• Barely Scratching the Surface: An Indigenous Experience of Education Administration
  PENNY TRIPCONY

SECTION THREE : Gendered Strategies and Responses in Education

• Gendered Policy Making Inside the State
  BOB LINGARD
• Good Girls and Naughty Girls: Rewriting the Scripts for Women's Anger
  MARIAN COURT
• Gender and Educational Management in New Zealand: Cooption, Subversion or Withdrawal?
  JUDITH PRINGLE AND HELEN TIMPERLEY
• Management, Gender and Language: Who is Hiding Behind the Glass Ceiling and Why Can't We See Them?
  ELEANOR RAMSAY
• The Ugly, the Mute and the Good: Men's Responses to Feminist Reforms
  PETER DOUGLAS

SECTION FOUR : Gendered Stories from the Field

• Organisational Culture and the Maintenance of Male Privilege
  LINDA APELT
• Educational Administration and Gender Messages
  PAUL GILES
• Musings of a Female Principal
  JAN D'ARCY
• Setting the Gender Agenda: Doing Too Much or Doing Too Little, an Administrative Dilemma
  MARTIN MILLS
• Self-managed Schooling and the Gendered Nature of Primary School Teaching
  GRACE DISTANT
• Teachers' Satisfaction with Their Working Relationships
  RICK CHURCHILL, JOHN WILLIAMSON, NEVILLE GRADY
• Restructuring, Gender and the Work of Principals
  LEONIE ROWAN AND LEO BARTLETT
• Women Teachers, Their Work and Health: What Principals Should Know
  DIANNE LOUGHHEAD COOPER

SECTION FIVE : Conclusion

• The Need for a Spring Clean: Gendered Educational Organisations and Their Glass Ceilings, Glass Walls, Sticky Floors, Sticky Cobwebs and Slippery Poles
  PAIGE PORTER

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