Leaders Who Dare - Pushing the Boundaries (Paperback)

Here, the authors focus on educators who dare to lead their schools, districts, universities, and educational organizations to new possibilities. The leadership practices of the individuals featured contribute significantly to craft knowledge and to the discourse on contemporary issues of educational leadership. These leaders develop collaborative decision-making processes, push the bureaucratic boundaries, claim power through politics, and live and lead from values. The authors contend that the leadership practices depicted reflect a redefinition of leadership that emanates from a constructive postmodern paradigm aimed at social reconstruction. These leaders are redefining leadership by integrating doing and being. This book is a report of the results of a collective qualitative inquiry into the leadership of eighteen impressive women educational leaders from Illinois, representing a diversity of roles, community sizes, institutional types, and racial perspectives. The chapters intertwine personal stories with the scholarship about leadership. No pseudonyms are used. Although several recent books have been published about the experiences of women as leaders, leadership studies have generally not included women or failed to point to women leaders as role models who could, even should, be emulated by leaders of both genders. It is past time to close the gender leadership gap in educational administration. This book will contribute to the ongoing redefinition of leadership and perhaps after reading this book leaders who dare will move themselves and our culture closer to gender inclusive perceptions of what leadership is and who leaders are.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Education
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2005
First published:	July 2005
Authors:	Linda L. Lyman • Dianne E. Ashby • Jenny S. Tripses
Dimensions:	227 x 170 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-1-57886-264-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-57886-264-7
Barcode:	9781578862641

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