Description: Drawing together diverse research perspectives and theoretical underpinnings, this handbook explores gender as a social category and examines cultural and social differences. Bringing together diverse perspectives from around the world, including from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the UK and the USA, the volume sets out the gender and educational leadership and management field, providing a snapshot of the field as it stands, signalling its development and directions for future development. It offers focused reviews of empirical research on particular aspects of the field and presents new insights from research findings and methodological approaches.
Brief description: Charol Shakeshaft is Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA, and was recipient of the AERA Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award in 2015.
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"The Bloomsbury Handbook of Gender and Educational Leadership and Management powerfully brings together a global group of leading scholars, advocates and practitioners. This will be one of the rare books I buy multiple copies of as it will quickly become essential reading for students and colleagues interested in gender and leadership!" --Karen Edge, Professor, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK
"This book brings together a remarkable cadre of international authors, who take up critical tensions in our educational leadership settings, disrupting binaries and challenging historical conceptualizations of leadership. Grappling with these tensions leads to intersectional understandings, implications for transforming the ways that we conceptualize gender and leadership, and new pathways that could help us disrupt and reimagine leadership for a more just world. Essential reading for anyone committed to leadership for justice and equity." --Shelley Zion, Professor, Rowan University, USA