By Nita Cherry, Joy Higgs
The objective in penning this booklet was once to stimulate extra complete conversations approximately girls in management occasions (particularly secondary and tertiary schooling contexts) by means of figuring out how ladies have long gone approximately growing optimistic variations in academic environments.
Frequently books approximately ladies and management take care of the politics of this dialogue house and the information of girls succeeding to and during the glass ceiling, or no longer! the point of interest of this booklet is on a unique area: on studying from the reports of girls doing management paintings.
The study process underpinning the e-book was once to hear the voices and tales of 28 girls occupying senior roles in schooling. 1/2 those girls have been principals of autonomous Victorian secondary faculties and the opposite part have been in professorial and senior management roles in Victorian universities. via this listening and considering on their stories the authors got here to realize that those girls of impact have been operating in contested areas and dealing with a number of perform dilemmas. Readers are invited to discover those areas and dilemmas, contemplating the learnings from the ladies whose lives, perspectives and reports are represented here.
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It was a business environment but a not-for-profit organisation. Some were previously principals of other schools and applied for their current schools because they liked what they had heard about the school. For one woman a “number of factors came together” when she applied for her current school. A colleague told me the job was coming up and so then, yes, I applied. In terms of my ability, you know I think you learn as you go. You learn on the job but also I attend to my professional development and so on.
And, it is one of those ideas that we unthinkingly conceptualise as positive and effective. However, it would be better to think of a range of leadership styles and approaches, ranging from aggressive, dictatorial, punitive to shared, democratic, collegial to supportive, empowering, self-sacrificing. Leaders can guide, direct, influence, suggest, refer, defer, challenge and dictate. Leadership may be nominal, agentic, innate and imposed; effective/successful, inert/inconsequential, or poor/unsuccessful.
You learn on the job but also I attend to my professional development and so on. So I do read, I do think about current educational thinking. I am involved in other bodies outside the school, so you know I was involved in a consultative group with Australian Institute of Teaching and school leadership, with a heads association and so I know sort of what is current in the scene. For many of the women being a principal was seen as giving them greater opportunities to be an influential educational and business leader, and to fulfil their belief that they could make a difference.
