Women Leading In Education

Foreword
Charol Shakeshaft
Preface
Introduction
Patricia A. Schmuck and Diane M. Dunlap
I. Preparing Women for Leadership: Conditions and Critiques
1. Reexamining Educational Leadership: Challenging Assumptions
Penny Poplin Gosetti and Edith Rusch
2. Ten Years Later: Too Little, Too Late?
Sakre Kennington Edson
3. The Head Teacher as Career Broker: Stories from An English Primary School
Sandra Acker
4. "Is That Sociology?": The Accounts of Women of Color Graduate Students in Ph.D. Programs
Mary Romero and Debbie Storrs
5. Gender Awareness and Contradictions in The Education of Early Childhood Teachers
Christine Chaille
II. Socialization of Women into Educational Leadership: Conditions and Critiques
6. Women Ascending to Leadership: The Organizational Socialization of Principals
Ann Weaver Hart
7. Learning Leadership through Mentorships
L. Jean Pence
8. The Mom and Pop Model of School Administration: A Case Study
Michelle Collay and Helen LaMar
9. Suit-able for Promotion: A Game of Educational Snakes and Ladders
Alyson M. Worrall
10. The Bureaucratic Restraints to Caring in Schools
Ava L. McCall
III. Women Leading: Assimilation, Acceptance and Resistance
11. Advocacy Organizations for Women School Administrators, 1977-1993
Patricia A. Schmuck
12. The Trouble with Change: A Conversation between Colleagues
Willi Coleman and Patricia Harris
13. Administrative Women and Their Writing: Reproduction and Resistance in Bureaucracies
Joanne E. Cooper
14. Women in Educational Administration: Views of Equity
Evelyn Nelson Matthews
15. Women Principals' Views on Sex Equity: Exploring Issues of Integration and Information
Patricia A. Schmuck and Jane Schubert
16. "If I Weren't Involved in Schools, I Might Be Radical": Gender Consciousness in Context
Colleen S. Bell
17. The Class Ceiling Reconsidered: Views from Below
Mary Woods Scherr
Part IV. Shaping Alternative Visions of Leadership: An Agenda for a New Century
18. To Walk The Red Road as School Leaders
P.J. Ford Slack and Patricia Cornelius
19. Women's Working Worlds: A Case Study of A Female Organization
Patricia Valentine
20. Leadership from The Classroom: Women Teachers as A Key to School Reform
Vivian Troen and Katherine C. Boles
21. Women Principals--Leading with Power
Kathleen S. Hurty
22. In the Image of The Double Helix: A Reconstruction of Schooling
Helen B. Regan
23. Women Leading: An Agenda for A New Century
Diane M. Dulap
List of Contributors
Index