Gender and Leadership in Education

CONTENTS: Tony Bush: Foreword - Kay Fuller/Judith Harford: A Festschrift for Marianne Coleman - Izhar Oplatka: The Research on Gender in the Field of Educational Management: A Journals-Based Historical Overview of an Area of Study - Jacky Lumby: Culture and Otherness in Gender Studies: Building on Marianne Coleman's Work - Victoria Showunmi: Diversity and Education in England - Joan Smith: Motherhood and Women Teachers' Career Decisions: A Constant Battle - Kay Fuller: Headteacher Preparation: An Account of One Woman Headteacher's Supportive Practices - Mary Cunneen/Judith Harford: Gender Matters: Women's Experience of the Route to Principalship in Ireland - Jill Sperandio/Jennifer Polinchock: Roads Less Travelled: Female Elementary School Principals Aspiring to the School District Superintendency - Tanya Fitzgerald: Venturing into the Habitat of the Powerful: Women Leaders in Higher Education - Margaret Grogan/Klara Wahlster: In Books, on the Screen, and in Games: Leadership and Gender Stereotypes Shape Images of Young Women Leaders - Pontso Moorosi: Patriarchal Bargain for African Women in Leadership: Deal or No Deal? - Helen Sobehart: Weaving the Fabric of Legacy: An Epilogue.

Kay Fuller is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and course leader of the MA in Educational Leadership and Management at the School of Education, University of Nottingham. She is a member of the Centre for Research in Educational Leadership and Management (CRELM), an elected member of the British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (BELMAS) Council and Co-Convenor of the BELMAS Gender and Leadership Research Interest Group, as well as an invited member of the worldwide network Women Leading Education. She has published internationally in the area of gender and educational leadership. Judith Harford is Professor of Education, Director of the Professional Master of Education (PME) and an elected member of the Academic Council at University College Dublin. She has published internationally on the history of women's education, gender and educational leadership and teacher education policy. She is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society (London) and the Massachusetts Historical Society (USA) and an International Clinical Practice Fellow of the American Association of Teacher Educators. She is also the Ireland Canada University Foundation Flaherty Visiting Professor, 2017-18.