Jill Blackmore

Blackmore (School of Social and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Education, Deakin U., Australia) provides a historical overview of educational management and the "masculinist" models embedded in leadership and organizational processes, as well as analyzing equal opportunity policies, and presenting new research on how educational restructuring has produced specific dilemmas for women in educational leadership. In her conclusion, she proposes a feminist politics of educational leadership for postmodern times. While focusing on Australia, this volume is of likely interest to both educational practitioners and policymakers, as well as postgraduate students in the fields of educational administration, management, and policy. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Feminism, Leadership, and Educational Change

Troubling Women

Drawing on the work of Nancy Fraser, this book offers a critical view of contemporary educational leadership and reform discourses, exploring how her key concepts of redistribution, recognition and representation may apply to social and therefore educational justice. Fraser offers a political and pragmatic reconciliation between feminist, neo-Marxist, critical and post-structuralist theories. This book outlines how Fraser has worked on and worked over theories of social justice and how this can inform how we can understand educational theory, policy and practice generally. In particular, the book focuses on the field of educational administration and leadership (ELMA) as it relates to equity issues such as school choice and inequality, gender and inclusive leadership, and alternative schooling. Fraser’s argument about ‘scaling up’ social justice theory is shown to be highly salient given the emergence of the field of transnational education policy and its role in the context of intensified nation-state and edu-business competition. Overall, through the lens of Nancy Fraser’s unitary framework, this book considers epistemological questions about the nature of knowledge, examines the relationship between the state, the individual, education and social movements, addresses the difficulties and dilemmas which arise due to the intersections of gender, class, race, sexuality and culture in a globalized context, and illustrates how the principles of social justice can be mobilized by leaders in everyday practice. Educational Leadership and Nancy Fraser is an illuminating read for those policymakers, researchers and practitioners engaged in the field of educational administration, leadership and social justice.

Educational Leadership and Nancy Fraser

Jane Kenway

Leonie Rennie

Sue Willis

Answering Back exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms. It tells stories in close up and from below, allowing everyone to talk: anxious boys, naughty girls, cantankerous teachers, pontificating principals and feisty feminists. This book challenges many sacred ideas about gender reform in schools and will surprise and unsettle teachers and researchers. It draws on a deep knowledge of gender issues in schools and of feminist theories, policies and practices. It is compelling and provocative reading at the leading edge.

Girls, Boys and Feminism in Schools

Answering Back

Judyth Sachs

Explores the issues inherent in critical and postmodern feminism in educational leadership.

Gender, Educational Restructuring, and Organizational Change

Performing and Reforming Leaders

Blackmore, L.K.

In this book Blackmore argues that the particular approaches taken by feminist theory towards educational leadership now require reviewing in the light of the radical restructuring of educational systems.

Jill Blackmore

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