The Bloomsbury Handbook of Gender and Educational Leadership and Management

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.

Victoria Showunmi is Lecturer in Education at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK, Affiliated Faculty at the University of North Carolina, USA, and Visiting Associate Professor at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Pontso Moorosi is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Management at the University of Warwick, UK, and Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Charol Shakeshaft is Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. Izhar Oplatka is Professor of Educational Administration and Leadership in the School of Education at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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 *