Voices of women aspiring to the superintendency / Margaret Grogan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grogan, Margaret, 1952-

Series:

SUNY series in educational leadership

SUNY series, educational leadership

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women school administrators--United States--Interviews.

Women school administrators.

Women school principals--United States--Interviews.

Women school principals.

Women school superintendents--United States.

Women school superintendents.

Interviews.

United States.

Feminism and education--United States.

Feminism and education.

Physical Description:

x, 222 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1996]

Summary:

The superintendency offers the most powerful and prestigious positions in K-12 public school systems. Few superintendents of these systems in the United States are women, although the majority of teachers are women and many women have leadership positions in schools. There are also increasing numbers of women in administrative preparation programs at institutions of higher education. This study of 27 highly qualified women in top-level administrative positions in public education was designed to find out what it is like to be a woman aspiring to the executive leadership position. Research questions included: Why are there so few women superintendents when so many are qualified? What are the routes to the superintendency? What is the context of educational administration in the public school? What kinds of leaders are women who aspire to the superintendency? The research was also informed by a feminist advocacy of social change to discover how and under what conditions a more equitable distribution of superintendencies is likely to occur. A feminist poststructural framework provided the theoretical basis for the analysis of the data.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index.

ISBN:

0791429393

0791429407

OCLC:

33334718