Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; A Telling Tale from the Field; Introductory Comments; Section 1: 'Rereading' Educational History; Chapter 1 The Gender Dynamics of Organizations: A Historical Account; Chapter 2 'In the Shadow of Men': The Historical Construction of Administration as a 'Masculinist' Enterprise; Chapter 3 'Setting The Child Free': Teachers, Mothers and Child-centred Pedagogy in the 1930s Kindergarten; Section 2: Contemporary Issues
Chapter 4 Improving Girls' Educational OutcomesChapter 5 Non-traditional Pathways: Are they the Way to the Future?; Chapter 6 Truths About Assessment and the Learning of Girls: From Gender Difference to the Production of Gendered Attainment; Chapter 7 Ethical Practice in an Unjust World: Educational Evaluation and Social justice; Chapter 8 Equal Opportunity, Integration and Parental Participation: A Gender-critical Case Study of Educational Policy Implementation between Two Schools; Section 3: Political and Administrative Theory: Some Feminist Challenges
Chapter 9 Contemporary Issues for Feminism: The Politics of the StateChapter 10 Privatizing Public Schooling: Its Causes and Consequences; Chapter 11 Equal Employment Opportunity and Corporate Planning; Chapter 12 Educational Leadership as Emancipatory Praxis; Section 4: Feminist Praxis; Chapter 13 The Theory-Practice Relationship in Schooling, Academia and Feminist Theory; Notes on Contributors; Index
