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Gender and Educational Leadership in Greece

Emmy Papanastasiou

Worldwide women constitute the majority of the teaching force, but men are more likely to achieve headship. Internationally a number of scholars working within sociology and the sociology of education have focused on the continued influence of gender on the shaping of identity and choices in relation to leadership, work and home. But in Greece the under-representation of women in educational leadership has received limited attention. Why are there so few women in educational leadership? How are leadership and gender constructed by men and women head teachers and teachers? Are the perceptions of men and women different and gendered? What is the future for women in leadership in Greece?

Emmy Papanastasiou uses qualitative data from interviews with men and women head teachers and teachers in Greece and analyzes them using a feminist social constructionist framework to provide some answers to these key questions. In doing so, the book sheds light on social, cultural and political factors that influence women's potential advancement in educational leadership.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publish Date: Jul 25th, 2024
  • Pages: 192
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.50in - 0.98lb
  • EAN: 9781350399822
  • Categories: Administration - GeneralLeadershipComparative

About the Author

Daly, Alan J.: - Alan J. Daly is Professor at University of California, San Diego, USA
Liou, Yi-Hwa: - Yi-Hwa Liou is Professor in the Department of Educational Management at the National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan.
Brooks, Jeffrey: - Jeffrey S. Brooks is Head of School at the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia.
Schechter, Chen: - Chen Schechter is Full Professor of Leadership, Organizational Development and Policy in Education and is President of the MOFET National Institute for Research and Development in Education, Israel. His research, aimed at integrating theory with empirical evidence and practice, includes reform implementation, educational change, professional learning communities, organizational learning, collaborative learning from success, educational leadership, leadership development, systems thinking for school leaders, and school leadership for social integration and mobility. Prof. Schechter earned his PhD in Educational Administration and Leadership from The Ohio State University. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Educational Administration (JEA), the oldest and most respected leading international journal in the field of educational leadership and management. His latest book is Resilient Leadership: School Leaders Thriving in Adversity and Crisis (2023). Schechter has served as Chair of AERA Organizational Theory SIG and Chair of the Board of Directors at the Institute for the Advancement of Teaching, Learning and Social Integration. He advises PhD students from diverse religious, ethnic and cultural backgrounds in their research dissertations at the Faculty of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Showunmi, Victoria: - Victoria Showunmi is Lecturer in Education at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK, Affiliated Faculty at the University of North Carolina, USA, and Visiting Associate Professor at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany.