Women in Educational Leadership and Community Building 1032418532, 9781032418537

Table of contents :
Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
About the Authors
Acknowledgment
Preface
Chapter 1: Women in educational leadership and community building: An introduction
Introduction
New perspectives, not new waves
Defining women’s educational leadership
Positionality, epistemology, and inquiry
Methods
Women educational leaders who contributed to this book
Concluding thoughts
References
Chapter 2: Women leaders: Space, place, role, and change
Introduction
Women’s identity and self-exploration
Developing leadership identity
Women leaders and displacement
Displacement in education
Distinctive space
Displaced women, self-exploration, and empowerment: a journey toward transformation
Self-empowerment and expanding empowerment: unleashing potentials
Motherhood: everyday educational leadership and multiple roles
Practicing leadership at home: leadership as influence
Concluding thoughts
References
Chapter 3: Women enhancing change through social justice
Introduction
Educational leadership and SJ
Women leaders and social justice
Women educational leaders: voices pertaining to social justice
Perceptions of social justice: tracking social justice trajectories
Paving the paths for social justice: a good socio-educational fight against the conventions
Social injustice: a call for systemic transformation
Concluding thoughts
Note
References
Chapter 4: Women’s collective leadership: A comprehensive transformation
Introduction
Maximizing women leaders’ opportunities
Who are collective leaders?
Collective leadership: Transformation on the people’s front
Collective leadership: Deconstructing and ameliorating organizations for transformation
Collective leadership: Reaching out for community transformation
Constraints facing collective leaders
Trilogy of/for transformation
Transformation from a people’s perspective: a holistic approach for building capacities
The journey of transformation on the government and private institutional levels
Policy initiator: Means for systemic changes, equity, and social justice
Women as community builders: substituting and complementing the governmental system
Women as community builders: ethnic coexistence and social cohesion
Constraints collective leaders encountered
Concluding thoughts
References
Chapter 5: Women and power dynamics: A covert revolution
Introduction
Cultural challenges faced by women
Dispositions of women as educational leaders
Women and educational leadership
Women in educational leadership: empowering practices
Community-focused leadership
Women leaders within patriarchal societies: navigating cultural norms
Voices of women educational leaders
Power distance index (PDI): the dilemma of accepting male–female hierarchy on the trail of change
Individualism versus collectivism (IDV): a path employed for support and change
Masculinity versus femininity (MAS): women’s leadership is an emotional and social asset
Uncertainty avoidance index (UAI): two features of uncertainty
Concluding thoughts
References
Chapter 6: A new wave of women’s educational leadership
Introduction
Women’s entrepreneurial skills and practices
Why women educational entrepreneurship?
Defining educational entrepreneurism
Entrepreneurship and education
Entrepreneurship in higher education
The rise of social entrepreneurship in education
Women and social entrepreneurship
Collective leadership in women entrepreneurship
Concluding thoughts
Note
References
Chapter 7: Beyond education: Empowerment model
Introduction
A new model for women’s educational leadership
Self-empowerment
Role modeling
Mentoring (empowering others)
Women’s ecological leadership
Next steps for the model
The seven stages of initiation and implementation
Assessing the implementation process
Concluding thoughts
References
Chapter 8: Women’s educational leadership: Concluding thoughts
References
Index

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