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The challenges of starting and leading a charter school: Examining the risks, the resistance, and the role of adaptive leadership---An autoethnography.
Dissertations & Theses @ University of Pennsylvania Available online
Dissertations & Theses @ University of Pennsylvania- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Gilbert, Nina L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational leadership.
- Education, Leadership.
- 0449.
- Local Subjects:
- Education, Leadership.
- 0449.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages
- Contained In:
- Dissertation Abstracts International 74-09A(E).
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- This study contains the personal narratives of a charter school founder who faced innumerable obstacles to open and operate Georgia's first single gender charter school. As the researcher and practitioner I am able to provide the reader with an insider's view of the struggles experienced over a five-year period when efforts to open a college preparatory charter school for underserved students are introduced, opposed and attacked. Using an autoethnographic qualitative method of research, I chronicle my leadership story. Through highly personalized narratives that are introspective in nature, I reveal the fears, failures, and successes experienced while starting up and leading my organization through extremely challenging stages that were wrought with political, financial and legal adversity.
- The gathering of data for this self-study involved extensive journaling, dialogical interviews, and the collection of newspaper articles, emails, and letters. As the study concludes in November 2012, themes emerged from the coding of data that provided valuable insight into my leadership practice. These themes are discussed in greater detail in the conclusion section of chapter nine, as they help to frame my findings and recommendations for further study.
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-09(E), Section: A.
- Adviser: James H. Lytle.
- Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2013.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175.
- ISBN:
- 9781303099717
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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