Book description
This groundbreaking book presents a new way of looking at leadership
that is anchored in research on women leaders in education. The authors
examine how successful women in education lead and offer suggestions and
ideas for developing and honing these exemplary leadership practices.
Women and Educational Leadership shows how the qualities that
characterize women's approaches to leadership differ from traditional
approaches?whether the traditional leader is a woman or a man. The
authors reveal that women leaders are more collaborative by nature and
demonstrate a commitment to social justice. They tend to bring an
instructional focus to leadership, include spiritual dimensions in
their work, and strive for balance between the personal and professional.
This important book offers a new model of leadership that shifts away
from the traditional heroic notion of leadership to the collective
account of leadership that focuses on leadership for a specific
purpose-like social justice. The authors include illustrative examples
of leaders who have brought diverse groups to work toward common
ground. They also show how leadership is a way to facilitate and
support the work of organizational members. The ideas and suggestions
presented throughout the book can help the next generation fulfill the
promise of a new tradition of leadership.
Women and Educational Leadership is part of the Jossey-Bass
Leadership Library in Education series.
Margaret Grogan is dean of the School of Educational Studies at
Claremont Graduate University. Charol Shakeshaft is the department
chair of Educational Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University.
