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The social construction of educational leadership : southern Appalachian ceilings / Anna Hicks McFadden, Penny Smith. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McFadden, Anna Hicks.
- Series:
- Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 255.
- Counterpoints, 1058-1634 ; v. 255
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women school administrators--Appalachian Region, Southern--Social conditions.
- Women school administrators.
- Women--Employment--Appalachian Region, Southern--History.
- Women.
- Educational leadership--Appalachian Region, Southern.
- Educational leadership.
- Appalachian Region, Southern--Social conditions.
- Appalachian Region, Southern.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 296 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The Social Construction of Educational Leadership: Southern Appalachian Ceilings addresses decisions about who is chosen to lead public schools, and how they do it. Using their research on senior level public school leaders in the southern mountains of North Carolina as a representative case study, the authors construct an argument for a reconsideration of the role of place - both in decisions about who becomes a school leader, and in how those leaders behave professionally.
- The authors describe the changes in a leadership system grounded in race, class, geographic, and gender preferences that dating back to colonial systems of deference, describing the pattern of those changes, and exploring their implications for school leadership, and the preparation of prospective leaders in the region and elsewhere."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Southern Appalachian ceilings
- Cracker-barrel wisdom: the geographic context
- Good ol' boys and girls: the professional context
- The dissembling study
- Transforming Bubba
- Appalachian Steel Magnolias
- Role-playing
- Carpetbaggers: being "from off"
- The social construction of educational leadership
- Ceilings in transition
- Tripping at the tipping point.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-288) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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