A Feminist Critical Perspective on Educational Leadership

Autor/in	Blackmore, Jill
Titel	A Feminist Critical Perspective on Educational Leadership
Quelle	In: International Journal of Leadership in Education, 16 (2013) 2, S.139-154 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-3124
DOI	10.1080/13603124.2012.754057
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Educational Administration; Leadership; Womens Studies; Women Administrators; Transformational Leadership; Participative Decision Making; Emotional Intelligence; Feminism; Research Needs; Educational Research; Critical Theory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Führung; Führungsposition; Weibliche Führungskraft; Emotionale Intelligenz; Feminismus; Forschungsbedarf; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Kritische Theorie
Abstract	Since the 1980s, there has been a burgeoning literature on women and educational leadership. The focus has primarily been on the underrepresentation of women in leadership informed by a feminist critique of the mainstream literature. Over time, key feminist theories and research have been appropriated in education policy and are now embedded in the mainstream literature, with little recognition of their provenance or political intent. This article identifies the discursive moves that have domesticated feminist research by depoliticizing and decontextualizing leadership and argues for refocusing the feminist gaze away from numerical representation of women in leadership to the social relations of gender and power locally, nationally and internationally. A feminist critical sociological perspective treats leadership as a conceptual lens through which to problematize the nature, purpose and capacities of educational systems and organizations to reform and indeed re-think their practices in more socially just ways. Feminist understandings provide substantive and normative alternatives to how we theorize and practice leadership. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10