Gender, Management and Leadership in Initial Teacher Education : Managing to Survive in the Education Marketplace? / by Barbara Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Barbara, Author.

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, 2524-6453

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--Training of.

Teachers.

Sex.

Educational sociology.

Management.

School management and organization.

Teaching and Teacher Education.

Gender Studies.

Sociology of Education.

Organization and Leadership.

Local Subjects:

Teaching and Teacher Education.

Gender Studies.

Sociology of Education.

Management.

Organization and Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXI, 285 p. 1 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Summary:

This book highlights the difficulties that women working as managers and leaders in initial teacher education face. Teacher education is at the forefront of education reforms and yet little is known about the professional lives of those who work within it. Whereas many women are moving into positions of authority in teacher training, some existing women managers are being marginalized within new internally differentiated layers of managerial structures. Yet other female managers, mainly new appointees, seem to endorse the discourses associated with new managerialist practices. Simultaneously some women who manage in teacher training are engaged in a struggle for survival individually and professionally. In the main, men seem to be missing from authority positions and will conclude that, in the current climate, the management of teacher training is ‘no job for a man’.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Setting the Scene

Chapter 2. Women, Management and Leadership

Chapter 3. Women, Educational Management and Leadership

Chapter 4. The Particular Story of the Management of Teacher Education

Chapter 5. Neo Liberalism, New Managerialism, Policies and Practices

Chapter 6. Researching Women Managers and Leaders

Chapter 7. Women, Returning to Manage Initial Teacher Education

Chapter 8. Extraordinary Women, Senior Managers and Leaders

Chapter 9. Managing to Survive in Risky Times?

Chapter 10. Looking to the Future: The Struggle for Teacher Education.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137490513

1137490519