Performing and Reforming Leaders: Gender, Educational Restructuring, and Organizational Change

.Explores the issues inherent in critical and postmodern feminism in educational leadership. Winner of the 2007 Critics’ Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association Performing and Reforming Leaders critically analyzes how women negotiate the dilemmas they face in leadership and managerial roles in Australian schools, universities, and continuing education. To meet the economic needs of the post-welfare nation state of the past decade, Australian education systems were restructured, and this restructuring coincided with many female teachers and academics moving into middle management as change agents. The authors examine how new managerialism and markets in education transformed how academics and teachers did their work, and in turn changed the nature of educational leadership in ways that were dissonant with the leadership practices and values women brought to the job. While largely focused on Australia, Performing and Reforming Leaders strongly resonates with the experiences of leaders in the United States and other nations that have undergone similar educational reforms in recent decades.Performing and Reforming Leaders: Gender, Educational Restructuring, and Organizational Change is written by Jill Blackmore; Judyth Sachs and published by Suny Press. ISBNs for Performing and Reforming Leaders are 9780791480403, 0791480402 and the print ISBNs are 9780791470329, 0791470326. Additional ISBNs include 9780791470312.