Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-229) and index.
pt. 1. Leadership discourses and gender -- pt. 2. Leadership practices amidst global and local change -- pt. 3. Disrupting the normative discourse of leadership.
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This book features chapters by leading international scholars on gender and educational leadership. Drawing on research in schools in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, the United States and Canada, it introduces new discussions about the impact of gender, race, class, institutional setting and recent ideologies on leadership discourses. The book shows how early research has over-emphasized gender stereotypes and tended to simplify and polarize the ways men and women lead. Looking at differences and similarities in how men and women take on and exercise leadership roles, the a.