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Author Henry, Helen K

Title A woman principal : what's being feminist got to do with it? / Helen Henry
Published [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2000

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Description 1 volume (various pagings) ; 30 cm
Contents A reader's guide to the folio -- Folio item 1. Feminist research: epistemology, methodology, and methods -- Folio item 2. Leading where? Perspectives on educational leadership of women in Catholic secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Melbourne -- Folio item 3. The woman in the principal's office: eight years later and moving on -- Folio item 4. Wild patience: school administration as if women mattered
Summary This investigation of the experience and standpoint of women principals of Catholic schools revealed that dominant masculinist views of educational administration are neither popular, nor go unchallenged. It revealed that the unique achievements of women educators are largely ignored in a culture that still dismisses women's values and commitments
Notes Submitted to the School of Social and Cultural Studies in Education of the Faculty of Education, Deakin University
Thesis (Ed.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2000
Bibliography Bibliography: leaves 174-187
Subject Women school principals -- Australia.
Catholic schools -- Australia.
Feminism.
Sexism in education.
Genre/Form Academic theses.
Author Deakin University. Faculty of Education.
Deakin University. School of Social and Cultural Studies in Education