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Author International Women Leading Education Across the Continents Conference (5th : 2017 : Hamilton, N.Z.)

Title Women leading education across the continents. Finding and harnessing the joy in leadership / edited by Rachel McNae, Elizabeth C. Reilly ; Foreword by Jane Strachan
Published Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 208 pages)
Contents Foreword: Women Creating a Cultural Shift in Educational Leadership -- Prologue. Kupu whakataki. Titiro whakamuri, kia pai ai te titiro whakamua: Look to the Past to Understand the Present and Prepare the Pathway Forward -- Section 1. The status of women in educational leadership: global insights -- Overview: The Status of Women in Educational Leadership: Global Insights -- Your Eyes Are Beautiful: Profiles of 21st Century Afghan Women Leaders -- Women's Leadership in Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands Secondary Schools: A Case Study -- The Impact of Culture on Women's Leadership in Vanuatu Secondary Schools -- Factors Affecting Women's Access to Higher Education in India -- Section 2. Factors impacting women's leadership -- Overview: Factors Impacting Women's Leadership -- The Relationship of Stress and Health in Women Superintendents in the United States -- Women's Perceptions of Risk When Leading and Engaging in Educational Change -- Barriers and Strategies: Stories of Women's Rise to Leadership in Higher Education in the Philippines -- Scaling the Mountain to Principalship in New Zealand: The Enablers and Barriers in a Female Principal's Journey -- Section 3. Women's leadership experiences -- Overview: Experiences of Women in Educational Leadership -- Dancing Into the Unknown: Learning Leadership -- Know Thyself: The Influence of Career Orientations on Women Education Leaders' Career Decisions -- Women Leading for Social Justice in Higher Education: Surfacing Hope in Challenging Times -- Minority Women Leaders in Higher Education -- Section 4. Women's leadership and human rights -- Overview: Women's Rights Are Human Rights -- Malaysian Muslim Women Academics and Gender Equality: Situated Constructions -- Adopting a Paradigm Shift of Equality for Leadership: Equality Through Human Rights -- Affirmative Action: An Effective Policy for Gender Parity in Leadership in Ontario's Public Education System? -- Interrupting Whiteness: An Auto-Ethnography of a Black Female Leader in Higher Education -- Section 5. Women's leadership stories -- Overview: Women's Leadership Stories -- Making Inroads and Making a Difference: Women Leading Indonesian Junior and Senior Secondary Private Madrasahs -- Celebrating Leadership Learning in Education Across Continents: Experiences of Women Leading in Rwanda -- A Female Leader in a Man's World: Stories of Women Leaders of Catholic Schools -- Leadingmamas: A Visual Ethnography -- The Path of Leadership for Women in Pakistan: Critical Reflections -- Balancing the Yang and the Yin Through Source-fully Intelligent Education
Summary "The scholars and practitioners in this book discover and document the work of women leaders throughout the world"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Papers originally presented at a conference held in 2017 in Hamilton, New Zealand
"Published in partnership with AASA, The School Superintendents Association."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 20, 2018)
Subject Women school administrators -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
Educational leadership -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
Women in education -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Educational leadership
Women in education
Women school administrators
Form Electronic book
Author McNae, Rachel, editor
Reilly, Elizabeth C., editor
LC no. 2018028012
ISBN 9781475840728
1475840721
Other Titles Finding and harnessing the joy in leadership