Gender, Management and Leadership in Initial Teacher Education Managing to Survive in the Education Marketplace? /

• Main Author: Thompson, Barbara (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
• Subjects: Education.; Management.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational sociology.; Teaching.; Sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Gender Studies.; Sociology of Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.

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 position...

Table of 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.