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Dancing on the Ceiling - A Study of Women Managers in Education (Paperback)
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Dancing on the Ceiling - A Study of Women Managers in Education (Paperback)
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`Every now and then amidst the gloom, however, a genuinely
scholarly article or monograph bobs up which renews one's sense of
hope and restores one's faith in the academic enterprise. Valerie
Hall's Dancing on the Ceiling is a case in point. I read it,
enjoyed it and found it genuinely uplifting .... And the notion of
formation is what makes this book so important, for Valerie Hall
was not only keen to document what it meant to be an educational
leader from the perspectives of these six women, but how it was
that each of them became school heads.... Her book is one of the
rare examples in which I have seen such a penetrating level of
leadership character analysis attempted, let alone crafted as well
as Hall succeeds in doing. In this respect Dancing on the Ceiling
is a benchmark study. Any aspiring leader, male or female, should
find the frankness and the extent of personal detail in the account
extremely helpful in coming to terms with any inner doubts and
uncertainties of their own as they begin their leadership
journeys....In essence then, Hall has enlightened us about a small
group of female high-flyers and what it means to lead the dance, by
`enacting strong leadership within a collaborative framework'. For
her to incorporate the image of dancing women in her title was a
stroke of genius' - Educational Management & Administration `I
recommend it to research students in order to introduce them to
this particular body of knowledge, partly because of the
comprehensive references, and partly because it is so well
written...A book that so demands to be read' - Management and
Education The book is about leadership and gender. It draws on the
author's experience as a teacher and management development
consultant in education, as well as her research into gender issues
over a number of years. It will be of interest to women and men in
education, as well as making a theoretical contribution to the
debate about educational leadership.
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